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From: pdavid@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Paul C. David)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: FAR functions and float types
Message-ID: <1989Sep18.194521.17115@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 18 Sep 89 19:45:21 GMT
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Reply-To: pdavid@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Paul C. David)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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mikek@ziebmef.mef.org (Mike King) writes:
>I've had the exact same problem with passing float arguments in Windows!
>And I got around it by using doubles instead of floats.  I know people are
	I was REALLY skeptical when I saw this the first
	time.  But I stand corrected, some co-workers
	recall seeing something about passing floats in
	the bug list on ONLINE.  Another good one is that
	you don't want to return doubles from a function,
	as this COULD foul up Global memory.  So.... you
	need to pass the double as a pointer, or declare
	your function as FAR PASCAL.  Have fun....
	-Paul.


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Paul C. David		pdavid@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU
California Polytechic State University, San Luis Obispo
Home of the six-year or 60,000 mile undergraduate degree