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  • Subject: Fwd: Math.h functions with CGFloat
  • From: steven Hooley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:04:20 +0100

Sorry, 'safe' was a bad choice. I do care because i have compiler
warnings. I have started defining macros for each function and thought
i better check that they didn't already exist.
Thankyou

On 10 August 2010 14:54, Alastair Houghton <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2010, at 13:42, steven Hooley wrote:
>
>> Is there a preferred way to use the Math.h functions with CGFloats
>> that is 32 and 64 bit safe?
>
> Why would they be unsafe?  (They aren't.)
>
> It's possible that using the double versions (the ones without the "f" suffix) is inefficient in 32-bit mode, but in practice you're very unlikely to notice.  If you particularly cared, you could #define some macros for them, but I doubt it's worthwhile unless you're going to do some heavy-duty geometry (and in that case, you might find that you want to use double anyway, for accuracy).
>
> BTW, <math.h> isn't capitalised; please don't use random upper-case letters when including header files... it causes grief if your source code is ever moved somewhere case-sensitive.
>
>> Should i even be using Math.h functions in Cocoa?
>
> Why should you not?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Alastair.
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