From: Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] gcc type promotion bug?
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:36:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905460@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905457@msgid-missing>
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:31:02PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> No. There are no operands of type double or long double involved, so the
> ususal arithmetic conversions (6.3.1.8) choose float as the common type:
>
> Otherwise, if the corresponding real type of either operand is float,
> the other operand is converted, without change of type domain, to a
> type whose corresponding real type is float.
OK, thanks. I looked at (out of date) K&R, which told me all floating
point arithmetic in C was done in double precision, and I tried my
program on i386, where it appeared to worked fine.
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-16 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-16 20:00 [Linux-ia64] gcc type promotion bug? Richard Hirst
2002-04-16 20:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-16 20:36 ` Richard Hirst [this message]
2002-04-16 20:58 ` Andreas Schwab
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