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[Sylvain Pion <>]

Peter Schröder a écrit :
> The following (from float.h) elicits a warning that the return type is 
> being cast from double implicitly:
>
>    class Kth_root
>      : public Binary_function<int, Type, Type> {
>      public:
>        Type operator()( int k,
>                                        const Type& x) const {
>          CGAL_precondition_msg( k > 0, "'k' must be positive for k-th 
> roots");
>          return CGAL_CLIB_STD::pow(double(x), 1.0 / double(k));
>        };
>    };
>
> Might be nice to make an explicit cast to (Type) to avoid this warning 
> from the compiler. Yes, it's only a warning, but I tend to think that 
> one wants no warnings (which are reasonable) as getting used to ignoring 
> warnings is generally a bad thing...

Thanks Peter for reporting this.
I definitely concur on your opinion concerning warnings.

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Sylvain Pion
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Geometrica Project-Team
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