Patrick Boettcher wrote:
>
> My question is: Is it save to assume, that all compilers calculate the
> following assignment at compile time?
>
> int value = 0.523 * 65535;
Gcc does it at compile time (as do most compilers). Whether _all_?
I don't know. There are pretty strange C compilers and afaics the
standard allows run-time computation.
However, gcc also computes
#define value ((int)(0.523 * 65535))
at compile time.
But if you prefer the int var, IMHO better is:
static const int value = 0.534 * 65535 + 0.5;
so that the compiler may optimize further arithmetic with <value>.
> Presuming it is true, would kernel guys accept such a thing: using
> floats for compile time constants?
You'd better ask that on lkml. There'll be at least one who will
have an objection ;-)
Ciao, ET.
