Re: Why don't we switch to C like floating pointed arithmetic instead of automatic expansion to reals?

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 08:43:48 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 08:17:00 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
1. Could you please provide an assembler example with clang or 
recent gcc?

I have better: compile your favorite project with 
-Wdouble-promotion and enjoy the rain of warnings.

But try it yourself:

float foo(float a, float b) {
  return 3.0 * a / b;
}

Your example is just a speculation. 3.0 force compiler to convert 
a and  b to double. This is obvious.