update the 'float' spec; refs #8589

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Andreas Rumpf
2018-08-10 09:21:46 +02:00
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@@ -769,8 +769,8 @@ Pre-defined floating point types
The following floating point types are pre-defined:
``float``
the generic floating point type; its size is platform dependent
(the compiler chooses the processor's fastest floating point type).
the generic floating point type; its size used to be platform dependent,
but now it is always mapped to ``float64``.
This type should be used in general.
floatXX