fixes #432, fixes #427

2013-05-19 02:49:10 +02:00 · 2013-05-19 02:49:10 +02:00 · 38ed2373ab
commit 38ed2373ab
parent 62c80cd570
3 changed files with 39 additions and 4 deletions
--- a/web/news.txt
+++ b/web/news.txt
@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Bugfixes
  or not at all. There is also a new GC you can activate 
  with ``--gc:markAndSweep`` which does not have this problem but is slower in
  general and has no realtime guarantees.
+- ``cast`` for floating point types now does the bitcast as specified in the 
+  manual. This breaks code that erroneously uses ``cast`` to convert different
+  floating point values.


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