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Re: error message improvement.


> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:42:49 +0100 (MET)
> From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
> cc: egcs-patches@cygnus.com
> 
> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > I propose the following patch.  It would produce, for this case,
> >
> > z.c:3: warning: `not-a-number' produced during real division
> 
> Perhaps "real" could be replaced by "float" or "floating point"?

I did think of this (both of them), but "float" implies a particular
size, and "floating point" causes the warning messages to carry over
more than one line :-(.  If people prefer "floating point", I wouldn't
object.

-- 
Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>


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