Re: [9fans] IEEE floats

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> if you use the original declaration syntax of 40 years ago,
> float must be promoted to double because the caller won't know the type,
> but the ANSI declarator syntax that everyone ought to be using allows
> the distinction between float and double to be maintained, and it is.
> compare
>
> void
> g(float a)
> {
> g(a);    /* a is float */
> }
>
> void
> h(a)
> float a;
> {
> h(a);    /* a is double */
> }

thanks!

- erik