Hi,
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Phillip Helbig wrote:
> Pessimists say that it is quality of implementation. Perhaps. But the
> above DOES say that the double-precision version of x is to be summed,
That's the problem I have with it. It *looks* like it's saying
"first convert x to double precision, then sum it." I certainly
don't want to do that!
> and it would be good quality if an unnecessary temporary array were not
> created.
Yup.
It would be nice if compilers told you at compile time when
local variables (especially arrays) were being created.
-P.
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