Float Double Parameters

[Andrew Koenig]

>>     First and  foremost, get rid of the stupid promotion to doubles!  I
>>have  considered  this  a  misfeature  ever   since  I   heard   of  it.
>>Tangentially  to this  topic,  does X3J11 have anything to  say on  this
>>matter?

>X3J11 says "arguments that have type float are promoted to double". Too bad.

Ansi C also lets you declare types of formal parameters to externals:

	extern float f(float x);

in which case:

	f(1);		/* 1 is converted to float */
	f(1.0);		/* 1.0 is converted to float */

are both OK.