[Bug c/30916] Wrong ‘float’ rather than ‘double’ due to prototype warning

["hermantenbrugge at home dot nl" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #3 from hermantenbrugge at home dot nl  2007-02-23 15:26 -------
Subject: Re:  Wrong =?windows-1252?Q?=91float=92_rather_?=
 =?windows-1252?Q?than_=91double=92_due_to_prototype_warning?=

manu at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
> ------- Comment #2 from manu at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-02-23 14:21 -------
> I think the warning is correct. If there were no prototype, the value would be
> passed as double. Since there is a prototype, the value is passed as float.
>
> That is what -Wconversion warns about up to GCC 4.2 (check the manual for the
> description of Wconversion). Since GCC 4.3, those warnings have been moved to
> Wtraditional-conversion and Wconversion has a new purpose.
>
> More info: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/NewWconversion
>
> (Please, notice that the project is not finished yet, so things may change
> before GCC 4.3 is released).
>
> Please, let us know if this answers your question, so we can close this bug
> report.
>   
Yes. This answers the question. Sorry about the noise. I was testing 
this with
gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51) on fedora core 6. When I use
gcc version 4.3.0 20070222 (experimental). The problem goes away.
So the problem report can be closed.


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