`char' parameters: a follow-up/summary ( Long - but worth it :-) )

[Tom Stockfisch]

In article <191 at rocky8.rockefeller.edu> edf at rocky2.rockefeller.edu (David MacKenzie) writes:

>This is one of the big reasons that K&R C is not considered by some to
>be as good as FORTRAN for floating-point work; you can't have a function
>that takes a float or a char as an argument, which would be more
>efficient if that's all the precision that you need.

Every C compiler I've used has an option which
disables default promotion
of float to double.  The "only" remaining problem
is accessing single
precision math library routines.
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