Fun with numbers - dammit, but I want a cast!

[Erik Max Francis]

Bengt Richter wrote:

> <nit>With (float) 1 it can optimize to one instruction with immediate
> operand constant. With the other it needs (at least on x86) to move
> via
> EAX, for two instructions (e.g., assigning the resp values).

This is wholly an implementation detail.  The point is, in C and C++,
casts have different purposes.  Some are compile-time, some are
run-time; some are safe and are simply conversion, others are unsafe and
result in implementation-defined or undefined behavior.  Not all C casts
are unsafe; some simply invoke conversions.

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