Fun with numbers - dammit, but I want a cast!

[Carl Banks]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
> 
>> Certainly not.  Most type casts actually change bits.
> 
> Some casts do.  Some merely invoke conversions.
> 
>> For example,
>> supposing floats and longs are both 32 bits, the expression (float)1L
>> will *not* return the floating point number with the same bit pattern
>> as 1L.  It returns 1.0.
> 
> But the C++ equivalent, something like (float) 1, would _not_ return the
> floating point number with the same bit pattern as 1L either.  It would
> simply invoke the conversion from int to float.  What you're talking
> about would be something like *(float *) &i.


It seems you didn't read what I wrote carefully.  I was talking about
C, not C++.  Neither I nor the post I replied to mentioned C++ once.
I mentioned the C standard several times, never the C++ standard.

Type casts in C are as I described.



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CARL BANKS
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