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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: how cast works?
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:42:16 -0700
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Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
> On 07/08/2024 17:00, Dan Purgert wrote:
>> On 2024-08-07, Thiago Adams wrote:
[...]
>>> How about floating point?
>> Floating point is a huge mess, and has a few variations for
>> encoding;
>> though I think most C implementations use the one from the IEEE on 1985
>> (uh, IEEE754, I think?)
>
> I didn't specify properly , but my question was more about floating
> point registers. I think in this case they have specialized registers.

Who is "they"?

Some CPUs have floating-point registers, some don't.  C says nothing
about registers.

What exactly is your question?  Is it not already answered by reading
the "Conversions" section of the C standard?

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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