Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 5 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.