Re: Unknown symbol

[Trevor Miranda <trevorm@cisco.com>]

Jan Hudec wrote:

<snip>

> > > I think this value is written only for remember how it works.
> > > Could you not put it in comments and put the right value as :
> > > #define FREQ_LO 1400000 /* 87.5*16000 */
> > >      
> > Was this code compiled with some strange settings? normallyu the
> > compiler would have evaluated the expression and not generated code to
> > calculate the value...
> >    
>
> No. But the result would be float. So another operation later could be
> computed in floating point. And if the result is integer, it's at
> compilers discretion to compute as float and then cast or cast and
> compute as integer. It seems to have chosen the first option.
Slight correction - the result would be double. Also a reading of the 
standard seems to indicate that the casting is not at the
discretion of the compiler - the other operand being double, it is 
mandated that the integer operand be converted to double, the result
also being of the latter type.

-Trevor

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