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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Float Double Parameters
Message-ID: <5216@alice.uUCp>
Date: Sat, 29-Mar-86 10:04:46 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 29 10:04:46 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Apr-86 00:16:30 EST
References: <2600042@ccvaxa>
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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>>     First and  foremost, get rid of the stupid promotion to doubles!  I
>>have  considered  this  a  misfeature  ever   since  I   heard   of  it.
>>Tangentially  to this  topic,  does X3J11 have anything to  say on  this
>>matter?

>X3J11 says "arguments that have type float are promoted to double". Too bad.

Ansi C also lets you declare types of formal parameters to externals:

	extern float f(float x);

in which case:

	f(1);		/* 1 is converted to float */
	f(1.0);		/* 1.0 is converted to float */

are both OK.