You may find that reliability short-lived.

Could be - I find in Kernighan & Ritchie:
"When double is converted to float, whether the value is rounded or truncated is implementation-dependent."
That would appear to open the door to the possibility that we *can* do float f = X; double d = X; and still have f != (float)d (for some value/expression X).

The two formal ways of comparing floats/doubles are ...

Yes, and those are good ways - but I'm looking at comparing a float and a double that have been assigned the same value/expression.

Still, now that I've found that statement in K & R, I'll see if anyone on the PDL list sees any cause for concern. My hunch is that the current method will stand until someone reports a breakage. I guess I could report a breakage on the basis of my experience with VC 7.0, but that breakage was just straight out compiler flakiness - nothing to do with the "implementation-dependent" behaviour alluded to by K & R.

Cheers,
Rob

UPDATE: I think the way PDL is handling these values is fine. Afaict, pdl(float, 2/3) will assign exactly the same value as used by setvaltobad(2/3)
In both cases the value is (double)2/3 cast to a float, so behaviour will be as desired, irrespective of the way the compiler implements the cast from double to float.

In reply to Re^6: [Win32, C, and way OT] C floats, doubles, and their equivalence by syphilis
in thread [Win32, C, and way OT] C floats, doubles, and their equivalence by syphilis

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