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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:55:00 -0000
From: "Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@gmail.com>
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Subject: error losing precision on 64bit system
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Hi,
Is there a way to disable or work around the cast from x to y loses
precision error under gcc 4.2.3?  what I'm doing is definitely safe
but on 64bit systems, I get loads of compilation errors that I need to
solve.

thanks,
wes