Re: [Swarm-Support] Followup: found work-around for missing~/swarmarchiver.scm too

[Bill Northcott]

On 16/08/2006, at 4:42 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Yesterday I was bug shooting a problem in and older FC4 and found  
> that gcc treats 50 differently than 50.0 when used as a (double)  
> parameter in a draw from a normal distribution, and the value 50  
> was converted to 0.  It does not do that anymore in FC5.

C is a strongly typed language.  You can't just feed an integer  
constant (50) to a function that expects a double and have any  
guarantee about what will happen.  If you need a floating point  
argument, you have to use a floating point constant (50.0) or cast  
the integer.  I would expect that recent gcc compilers will kick you  
about this sort of thing, unless of course you have turned the  
warnings off or just ignored them.

Cheers
Bill