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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs?

From	James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs?
Date	2012-01-05 07:14 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<je4485$b3i$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 01/05/2012 05:43 AM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> writes:
>> In article <4F04EB0B.60701@verizon.net>,
>>  James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> wrote:
...
>>> [snip 116 blank lines]
>>> What was the purpose of those blank lines?
>>
>> I will wait until Keith asks.
> 
> Ok, what was the purpose of those blank lines?  And why would you feel
> the need to wait until I ask about it?
> 
> When I read your response, I didn't even realize that those blank lines
> were there.  I went to the next article thinking that you had said that
> you have a source but weren't going to share it (and was about to remark
> on that.

That was my initial reaction, too, and I presume that provoking that
reaction was the purpose of those lines. However, that doesn't quite
make sense: anyone who decided to post a response complaining about the
lack of a specific citation would immediately notice it, unless they
made the mistake of top-posting.

> My working hypothesis is that you were being deliberately difficult.

Agreed.

>>>> Knuth, ACP, 1.2.4.
>>>>
>>>> Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
>>>> <http://books.google.com/books?id=UTCenrlmVW4C&pg=PT192&lpg=PT192&dq=Dictionary+mathematics+fractional+part+-function&source=bl&ots=ezjia_b9uW&sig=Tojsd5nB2_gcZixDfGfB8SRVjAo&hl=en>
> 
> Ok.  My point is that "mathematics" is a very large field, and I'm
> skeptical that there's a single definition for a term like "fractional
> part" that all mathematicians would accept.

I'm basically in agreement with you on that, but playing the Devil's
Advocate for a moment, I have to concede that his citation seems
significantly more authoritative than Ben's.
-- 
James Kuyper

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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-12-02 10:34 +0100
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Vincenzo Mercuri <vincenzo.mercuri@hotmail.it> - 2011-12-02 18:10 +0100
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Vincenzo Mercuri <vincenzo.mercuri@yahoo.it> - 2011-12-03 01:51 +0100
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-03 11:51 -0500
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Vincenzo Mercuri <vincenzo.mercuri@hotmail.it> - 2011-12-03 19:08 +0100
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Quentin Pope <qp19433@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2011-12-03 19:06 +0000
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-12-03 19:14 +0000
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-04 17:19 +0200
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-04 10:39 -0500
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-03 12:31 -0800
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-03 12:38 -0800
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-06 15:10 -0500
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-03 12:49 -0800
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-04 23:04 -0800
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-05 07:14 -0500
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-06 11:39 -0800
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-05 16:14 -0800
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-06 11:30 -0800
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-26 09:14 -0800
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-01-05 16:32 +0100
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-01-04 09:11 +0000
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-04 23:08 -0800
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-05 11:15 +0000
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-05 07:27 -0500
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-05 13:03 +0000
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-05 16:28 -0800
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-12-03 01:50 +0000
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