Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!7103_2622
From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: C SYNTAX QUESTION
Message-ID: <5705.2623a214@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 12 Apr 90 01:31:00 GMT
References: <16304@nigel.udel.EDU>
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In article <16304@nigel.udel.EDU>, HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
> test(a) float a;
> {
> test1(&a);
> }
> This certainly passes a pointer to a double, and this can't be changed.
-- 
How about implementing this (and other promotions, like char->int) by
emitting the same code as for
test(_a) double _a;
{
  float a = (float)_a;
  test1(&a);
}?
This is the most user-friendly solution (although, it's
harder for the compiler writer).
--
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