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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: casting to float without converting to float?
Message-ID: <6990@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Jan 88 06:26:59 GMT
References: <11175@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <11175@brl-adm.ARPA> weiser.pa@Xerox.COM writes:
>Sigh.  I must not have made myself sufficiently clear.  Before I get any more
>responses to my converting-to-float request, please note that I need to convert
>an EXPRESSION.  The UNION  examples don't help.

There is no such thing as "converting an expression".  Presumably
you want to convert the integer result of evaluating some expression
to the equivalent float.  Union is just the ticket for this; in fact
there doesn't seem to be any other way to do this.