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From: kdb@chinet.chi.il.us (Karl Botts)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: passing floats to foo(,...)
Message-ID: <9183@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Aug 89 08:05:09 GMT
Reply-To: kdb@chinet.chi.il.us (Karl Botts)
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Is there any reasonable way pass a single-precision float to a function
taking a variable number of arguments?  The standard says something to
the effect of: "In the absence of a function prototype, floats will be
widened to double." I guess I am willing to stipulate that ",..." is
equivalent to
"in the absence of a prototype."  Still, it seems a shame that the float
gets widened (by no means a cheap operation) only to have me force it
back to float in the first line of the function. 

I suppose I could do something ugly with a union, or something like
that...