Mixing ANSI and K & R 1 code.

David B.Anderson davea at quasar.wpd.sgi.com
Tue Nov 20 04:18:16 AEST 1990


>Sgi has make a weak attempt to address this "standard" problem. There is a
> cc -float flag to stop default promotion to doubles in argument/parameter
>lists. Just seems not to work they way I hoped in spliced code...

The 3.3 cc man page tries to make it clear that -float does *not* apply to
arguments/parameters.  Check the -float option on the cc man page.

[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea at sgi.com ]
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