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From: lmb@ibmpa.UUCP (Larry Breed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Nude Vicar in Sex Romp!
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Date: 23 Aug 89 21:14:56 GMT
References: <960@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> <1989Aug17.191545.13040@oresoft.uu.net>
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In article <1989Aug17.191545.13040@oresoft.uu.net> dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum) writes:
>
>The pANS requires that floats be promoted to double for
>function calls unless the function is prototyped as
>taking float arguments.  Classic C doesn't constrain
>compilers to promote.

K&R does indeed require compilers to promote floating args to double.
This matches the pANS when there's no prototype visible.


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