Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 09:37:26 02/08/04
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On February 08, 2004 at 12:27:23, Sune Fischer wrote: >Perhaps a warning wouldn't hurt, although I'm not sure the compiler in general >will analyze mathematical expressions to see if they produce something >illogical. Any compiler must be able to evaluate constant expressions at compile time. >Multiply a float with a float you get a float This is not true in this generality. It is actually very often wrong, and the result will be a double. Requiring this could produce very inefficient floating point code. BTW: if you multiply/add/... two short, you get an int. Regards, Dieter
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