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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: wide arguments and/or argument widening
Message-ID: <9072@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Dec 88 17:04:46 GMT
References: <847@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <847@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gl8f@Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>Why are arguments to C functions always widened to ints or doubles?

Historical PDP-11ish reasons.  Don't worry about it.  Fixed for the most
part in ANSI C.