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From: Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@gmail.com>
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On 1 December 2011 00:39, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:

> so wrapping fabs(3) inside a macro, like in the following example might work.

so long as you know that fabs(3) takes a double and you never need to
down-cast from a long double :-)


Cheers,

--
Igor