Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Uses of "float:16" ? Message-ID: <1841@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 20:56:25 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1841 Posted: Tue Oct 1 20:56:25 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 06:32:02 EDT References: <486@houxh.UUCP> <2600015@ccvaxa> <238@graffiti.UUCP> <716@sfmag.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 11 > > Then you can define > > > > float foo:16; > > > > if you really think you can do something useful with 16-bit floats. Someone > > must use them for something... > > Just such a construct is used in the accounting software in many UNIX System > kernels. It seems to suffice for the application. Great, a violation of the C language spec in the kernel.