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From: chongo@nsc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: cc flag to prevent type conversion
Message-ID: <461@nsc.uucp>
Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 17:12:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 17:12:11 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Oct-83 09:13:27 EDT
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i would welcome a cc flag which would prevent the operations

single-float op single-float
shirt-int op short-int

from being coverted to double before doing the op.  the lack
of such a feature sludges out compute bound code.

there are times in which i will do a large amount of crunching in the 16 bit
operand length or single float range.  on machines which single operations
are faster than double ints  (most)  such a flag would speed up my programs
by a noticable amount.

chongo /\../\