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From: dat@ORVILLE.NAS.NASA.GOV (Dave Tristram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Passing floats - Is this a bug?
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Date: 6 Oct 89 00:01:45 GMT
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  > Here is the output this program compiled and run on a 4D/120GTX with 3.1G
  > 
  > foo:  1.000000
  > bar:  1.875000
  > 
  > 

try declaring the parameters as doubles.  I've had problems using the 
ansi style declarations like

   foo( float )

has something to do with automatic promotion of arguments, etc...