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From: mg@cidam.me.rmit.oz.AU ("Mike A. Gigante")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Passing floats - Is this a bug?
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Date: 8 Oct 89 02:45:15 GMT
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yes, I have seen the same problem (in the middle of a large program)

The -float doesn't help as it doesn't prevent the promotion of arguments
to double, merely the promotion of expressions to double.

the way to *avoid* the bug is to

#define float double

horrid, but it works on my program. Haven't ttried it on your test case 
(this machine ain't an iris)

Mike Gigante, ACGL, RMIT Australia