> On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 03:36:48AM +0200, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Gcc combines floating point constants in constant expressions, even when
> > > cross compiling.
> >
> > Are you sure? Or only if the source and target use the same formats?
>
> Yes. read gcc/fold-const.c in the gcc source. They go into great pains
> to do that.
>
> -Andi
>
Hmmmm. But gcc didn't do it in the kernel when it encountered some
real number constants, cast to an int.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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