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From: dmr@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fortran to C converter
Message-ID: <9244@alice.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 89 04:23:48 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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This newsgroup has become very silly lately, rather like the end of a
Python sketch.

Giles stated, "On the Cray, doubles have 28 digits of precision,
but it takes 50 (that's right - FIFTY) time as long to compute with
doubles as with singles," which is incorrect for the Cray C compiler.

Actually, with Cray's C, everything but chars is 64 bits.  Giles may
have confused C with Fortran.  The CFT compiler needs an option to make
doubleprecision 64 rather than 128 bits, but the C compilers don't,
and don't seem to have the opposite option.

Speaking of doubleprecision, the next topic of discussion is why C
believes in whitespace.

				Dennis Ritchie