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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Orca/C, bug?
Keywords: Orca/C
Message-ID: <14175@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Oct 90 21:33:14 GMT
References: <11906@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <11906@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> duerksen@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Joel L. Duerksen) writes:
>The program below crashes on my computer....  Most compilers would
>complain about the 0.0 and would require explicit type casting.

No, they would not.  The C language requires that compilers happily
accept the construct "i -= 0.0", which means "convert i to double,
subtract 0.0, convert back to int, and store into i".

I have no doubt that some compilers get this wrong, but if so it is
a bug in the compiler.