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Re: Default choice of float_t

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:31:19 -0800
Subject: Re: Default choice of float_t
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Joseph Myers wrote:

typedef double float_t;         /* `float' expressions are evaluated as
                                    `double'.  */

This is a strange default; normal practice is to evaluate float
expressions as float

Perhaps this dates back to K&R C, where it was common practice to evaluate floatexpressions as double. That all went out the window with C89, and I agree withyour proposal to modernize and simplify this.

References:
- Default choice of float_t
  - From: Joseph Myers

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