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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: BUG in Turbo C v1.0 float ???
Summary: pass floating values as double
Keywords: Turbo C, Bug, float, parameter passing
Message-ID: <846@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 87 17:21:45 GMT
References: <1304@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Floating point arguments passed in TC are expected to be of type
double.  This isn't exactly a bug, as I've been told by people that
are versed in K&R.

I first ran into this when I used scanf.  Quirks like this
are what make programming so much fun.

--Bill