Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oresoft!dan
From: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Nude Vicar in Sex Romp!
Message-ID: <1989Aug24.185550.11565@oresoft.uu.net>
Date: 24 Aug 89 18:55:50 GMT
References: <960@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> <1989Aug17.191545.13040@oresoft.uu.net> <1827@ibmpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland, OR
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In article <1827@ibmpa.UUCP> lmb@ibmpa.UUCP (Larry Breed) writes:
:In article <1989Aug17.191545.13040@oresoft.uu.net> dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum) writes:
:>... 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.

True enough, though not all compilers obeyed the constraint.

My dog peed on that page of K&R.
-- 
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