From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mike@Rand-Unix@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Horrid float code in 4.1 C compiler? Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3008 Posted: Mon Aug 30 21:08:27 1982 Received: Wed Sep 8 02:00:12 1982 Date: Wednesday, 25 Aug 1982 12:20-PDT Yes! It the code is horrible. The C compiler does not do good things with single precision numbers: it converts them to double, does the math, and then converts back. One solution is to just use double precision. Another solution is to use single precision and run slower thann double. The right solution is for someone to fix the C compiler to handle this very useful primitive data type correctly.