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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Mixing ANSI and K & R 1 code.
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Date: 19 Nov 90 17:18:16 GMT
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>Sgi has make a weak attempt to address this "standard" problem. There is a
> cc -float flag to stop default promotion to doubles in argument/parameter
>lists. Just seems not to work they way I hoped in spliced code...

The 3.3 cc man page tries to make it clear that -float does *not* apply to
arguments/parameters.  Check the -float option on the cc man page.

[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea@sgi.com ]
[``What can go wrong?''                           --Calvin to Hobbes]