Re: Cast ambiguity compilation error

[Daniel J Sebald]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> | diff -Pur octave/liboctave/intNDArray.cc octave-mod/liboctave/intNDArray.cc
> | --- octave/liboctave/intNDArray.cc    2009-01-18 13:45:08.000000000 -0600
> | +++ octave-mod/liboctave/intNDArray.cc        2009-01-18 13:53:19.000000000 
> -0600
> | @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
> |      {
> |        T val = this->elem (i);
> |  
> | -      if (((double)val) != 0.0 && ((double)val) != 1.0)
> | +      if (val != 0.0 && val != 1.0)
> |       return true;
> |      }
>
> Your diff seems to be reversed.

Yes, it should be the other way.


> Would it work to use
>
>   if (val != 0 && val != 1)
>
> instead?

That doesn't fix the problem.  It's the compiler.  It does seem like 0/1 is 
more general than 0.0 and 1.0, however.  1.0 suggests float.  Apparently it 
doesn't matter.

Dan