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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why doesnt this work!
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 19:33:46 -0700
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Eric NICOLAS wrote:

> Yes, I think you're wrong. The problem is that (end-start)/CLK_TCK is
> an integer value, where printf is waiting for a float value. You
> can try :
>         printf("The time was: %f\n", 1.*(end - start) / CLK_TCK);
> that should work.

There's no need to introduce a superfluous multiply.  Try a cast to a float
instead.

The original problem was two-fold.  First, the expression was of integral
type, not of floating-point type.  You need an explicit cast to float in there
to coerce it so that the computation is done in floating point.

The second problem was that of using printf in this manner.  The compiler has
no way of knowing that the first parameter to the variable argument list is
_supposed to be_ a float (it has the %f format specifier), when in actuality
it is of integral type.  This is a Bad Thing.

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