IRIX 3.2 C compiler bug (Mark Gets Pie in the Face)

[Robert Adsett]

In article <13600 at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> markv at gauss.Princeton.EDU (Mark VandeWettering) writes:
>In article <12999 at cgl.ucsf.EDU> conrad at cgl.ucsf.edu (Conrad Huang) writes:
>>
>>In the second place, even if they were equal, it should print 1.000000.
>
>Actually, if we wanna get really technical about it, this program shouldn't
>work at all, because you passed a double to the printf, when in fact it 
>wants a float argument.  This usually works out, but I have had it fail 
>on various machines (particularly mips based ones) in very odd ways, so
>one should be careful.
   No, floats get expanded to doubles when they are passed.  Printf expects
to receive a double.  If this fails on some machines then either their
compiler or library is broken.  In ANSI C when a prototype indicates a 
float parmaeter then there is no implicit conversion.


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		Robert Adsett  <semicon at watsci.UWaterloo.ca>
		Dept. of Phys, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo Ont. Canada