In Message <199809302156.RAA02900@jekyll.piermont.com> ,
   "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

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=>"Johnny C. Lam" writes:
=>> I assume egcs would also give the same warning, and the compile of cpp
=>> would break if compiled with -Werror.
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=>Strangely enough, egcs doesn't make it die. Bizarre.

   Perhaps it is doing dead code elimination before checking for
precision.

                                      Gary D. Duzan
                         Humble Practitioner of the Computing Arts