wide arguments and/or argument widening

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Tue Dec 6 03:04:46 AEST 1988

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In article <847 at hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gl8f at Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>Why are arguments to C functions always widened to ints or doubles?

Historical PDP-11ish reasons.  Don't worry about it.  Fixed for the most
part in ANSI C.

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