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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: floating point in Minix C
Message-ID: <2781@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 31 Jul 90 04:20:55 GMT
References: <26232@usc.edu>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <26232@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:

>Is there any simple flag to use for cc so that the libfp.a library will

Hmm... where did you get the libfp.a library from? I presume this is from Peter
Housel's fp package. If this is the case, it should have come with patches for
cc.c which will cause asld to scan libfp.a first.

>Or maybe I have it all wrong?  Maybe I need to put the routines from the
>libfp.a that I have into libc.a (replacing those routines that don't
>support floating point like printf(), and adding missing routines)?

No, have a separate libfp.a. See Peter's patches to cc.c.

>Where is the source code for these routines (in libfp.a)?

Which routines? libfp.a? They come from Peter's patches. printf()? A version
was also posted with Peter's patches. Alternatively you can replace the whole
lot with estdio.

>Why do I get the "Warning: dummy floating point constant(s)" message

You will need to use cc -f prog.c.

>Not having floating point is a worse limitation than 64k I+D.

No, it's not :-)

Earl
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