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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
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 20:56:25 1985
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> > 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.