update the 'float' spec; refs #8589

nim-lang · Aug 10, 2018 · 1d63a8f · 1d63a8f
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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