MSVC 2015 Error C2397: conversion from 'double' to 'FLOAT' requires a narrowing conversion

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 09:08:29PM +0000, Luke Benes wrote:
> I'm now getting the following error when I build with MSVC 2015:
> 
> [build CXX] vcl/win/gdi/winlayout.cxx
> C:/core/vcl/win/gdi/winlayout.cxx(3533): error C2397: conversion from 'double' to 'FLOAT' requires a narrowing conversion
> C:/core/solenv/gbuild/LinkTarget.mk:189: recipe for target 'C:/core/workdir/CxxObject/vcl/win/gdi/winlayout.o' failed
> make[1]: *** [C:/core/workdir/CxxObject/vcl/win/gdi/winlayout.o] Error 2
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> Makefile:266: recipe for target 'build' failed
> make: *** [build] Error 2
> 
> It looks like the source of the failure is: 
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3d456dfa6637c6c3ebe7a21f1f1a5b05039cee2a
> 
> with
> 3533:      mpRT->DrawGlyphRun({ baseline.x, baseline.y + nYDiff }, &glyphs, pBrush);

I can’t reproduce the error here (MSVC 2013), but can try to change
nYDiff (few lines above) from double to FLOAT and see if it fixes the
issue?

Regards,
Khaled