From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: C Language Specification
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.553
Posted: Thu Sep  9 09:28:01 1982
Received: Fri Sep 10 04:26:32 1982
References: mhb5c.1009

I don't mind having intermediate calculations done in double precision,
but if you look more closely at the fragment of code in question, it
went something like:
	mulf3	a,b,r0	; multiply a*b and put the result into r0.
			; note that this multiplication is done
			; in SINGLE precision
	cvtfd	r0,r1	; change the answer to DOUBLE precision!
	cvtdf	r1,c	; change the answer back to SINGLE precision and
			; store it!

Not only is this inefficient code, but it doesn't conform to the standard,
either!

=Spencer