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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: C compilers
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Date: 18 Jul 89 16:43:06 GMT
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My best advice is to cross-compile and use another compiler's math library.

I understand small-C had a bizarre mechanism to encapsulate floating point
in function calls...  I'd hate to see Minix adopt something like this.

For all practically purposes, you can implememnt floating point data types
as character arrays or structures or something.

Is floating point going to be included in future Minix releases?  Or do we
wait for gcc on the 386?

[BTW -- ast makes an excellent point about how much you can accomplish
without floating point -- i.e. all of Minix.  I've seen too many programs
use floating point unnecessarily].

marty
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