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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  C Floating point arithmetic
Message-ID: <2435@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 21:26:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 21:26:11 1985
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In article <618@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>In article <4647@alice.UUCP>, ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
[`>>>' must be from 1087@lll-crg.ARpA]
>>>	float a, b;
>>>
>>>	a = b + 1.0;	/* Gets done in double ... */

>>Nah, gets done in single ...

>On a 3B20S running Sys5 Release 2:
[it is done in double]

You just need a better compiler :-).  On a 4.3BSD (Beta) Vax with
the `-f' flag to the C compiler, it is done in single precision;
and the compiler generates a `.float' (single precision) constant.

With a tip of the hat (if I had a hat) to Donn Seeley,
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