Re: sqrt C function

[Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com>]

Paul Scott wrote:

> Well that may date me a little even though I am actively programming at 
> this moment.  I will research this a little more.  My logic would be it 
> would break the rules of the language to assume that conversion.

I don't see how. I see it as a legitimate compiler optimization. If you
have "double f = 4;", and you compile 4 as a double-precision value
rather than as an int (which would then require an immediate
conversion), how could that possibly break a program?

Craig