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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Compilers, architecture, and efficiency
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Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
References: <1991Apr28.154603.8003@rice.edu> <1991Apr29.155945.29907@rice.edu> <41279@genrad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1 May 91 15:14:56 GMT

If you want to specify a boolean operation on a float, do the following:

	f * 2.0

It's up to the compiler to determine if this multiplication by a constant
two can be handled by incrementing the exponent or if you have to do a real
floating multiply (say, for example, that it's m * e ^ 16).
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
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