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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: `char' parameters: a follow-up/summary ( Long - but worth it :-) )
Keywords: parameter, K&R, ANSI C, narrowing, widening, promotion
Message-ID: <287@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 10 Sep 88 18:58:54 GMT
References: <1626@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com> <191@rocky8.rockefeller.edu>
Reply-To: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego
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In article <191@rocky8.rockefeller.edu> edf@rocky2.rockefeller.edu (David MacKenzie) writes:

>This is one of the big reasons that K&R C is not considered by some to
>be as good as FORTRAN for floating-point work; you can't have a function
>that takes a float or a char as an argument, which would be more
>efficient if that's all the precision that you need.

Every C compiler I've used has an option which
disables default promotion
of float to double.  The "only" remaining problem
is accessing single
precision math library routines.
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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu