us anyway because it doesn't work right on the x86 and alpha. On
K&R code, small ints would be promoted to int. ANSI-C doesn't require
this and the small ints can be passed taking 8 or 16 bits of stack
space. However, the x86 abi that we use *does* promote to 32 bit,
and the alpha ABI passes them in 64 bit registers so we dont have
that aspect of the problem here. Losing float precision by having it
cast down to int because the funtion prototype specifies int is the
least of our problems. -Wmissing-prototypes helps here anyway.
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