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From: kens@atari.UUCP (Kenneth Soohoo)
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Subject: Re: Mark Williams C
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Date: 13 Jun 89 16:25:06 GMT
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In article <381@laas.laas.fr> ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
>
>Since the previous postings were discussing what one complier supports
>or does not support, I have a simple question.
>
>Is it true that MWC does not support the IEEE floating point standard?
>Is it in the queue?  According to our local ST mag (precisely: ST
>Magazine), they stated that MWC uses the DEC standard.
>

Yes, Ralph, MWC _does_ support the DEC format, which isn't a heck of a lot
of help with the MC6881 floating point co-processor board, which uses IEEE
standard floating point.  As far as _I_ know, MWC has plans to support
IEEE in the near future (i.e. "we're working on it, OK???").

You should check out, oh, any number of other compilers if you _really_ need
IEEE... Aztec, Alycon... ;-) Oh, and regarding the expansion bus which the
'881 sits on in a Mega, it'd be _really_ hard to make the equivalent slot
for a 520/1040 style machine, sorry.

-- 
Kenneth Soohoo			{ames,imagen,portal}!atari!kens
Atari Engineering
"So Atari doesn't necessarily agree with me, so what!"