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From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: Re: More on Small floating point constants are doubles?
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Date: 28 Mar 89 18:15:39 GMT
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In article <8903280946.AA14743@marvin.moncam.uucp> mcvax!moncam!paul@UUNET.UU.NET (Paul Hudson) writes:
>
>Dave Hanson points out that I can get float constants rather than doubles by appending an "F".
>
>I should have explained further ... ;-). I'm in the unfortunate position of having to keep
>my code in a state where it can be compiled by ANSI and non-ANSI compilers. Adding
>#ifdef __STDC round prototypes etc is bearable, but conditionally compiling a "f" after
>all the floating point constants would get silly. Thus I'd like that option.
Then use "(float)1.2" to get a float constant.  This is portable to the old
compilers and in fact was the way to get the job done on quite a few of them.


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