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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: casting to float without converting to float?
Summary: You can't
Message-ID: <649@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 88 14:18:25 GMT
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Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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In general, you cannot change the type of a quantity (unfortunately).  
It may be that the problem can be avoided by using a cast when reading
or writing the quantity, if the appropriate array is used.  The 4.3 BSD
VAX math library uses casts and #defines to set up the constants for
the elementary functions.  Otherwise your solution to use inline
assembler statements is the only thing I have found to work, and the
various gurus I have consulted have not come up with anything better.

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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet