[Freeciv-Dev] Re: server/settlers.c cleanup 3

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 01:12:29AM -0400, Ross W. Wetmore wrote:
> At 05:16 PM 02/04/13 -0700, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 
> >I've had a long argument with Raimar about this. Good luck to you Per. I
> fully
> >agreed with the old patch, and I agree with your current approach as well. I
> >think the ridiculous extremes the Freeciv code goes to to avoid floating
> point
> >is pointless. 
> 
> Wait until your program dies consistently storing its float value back into
> an int. Mixing the two properly is very hard to do, moreso when most
> programmers never really used floating point and don't understand it.
> 
> Amortize, and some of those screwball overflow functions will probably
> get most freeciv games this way somewhere in the endgame play.

I agree with Ross. We don't want to open another can of worms.

I have no problem if you write the float version of amortize into a
comment.

        Raimar

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