Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Floating point stack Message-ID: <0XI5RNG@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 28 Aug 90 23:51:14 GMT References: <9008281431.AA00691@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <10340@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <10340@pt.cs.cmu.edu> koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman) writes: > 4) One motivator for separate stacks is that 16-bit integers are not > the same size as 32-bit reals. On 32-bit hardware, this problem > goes away: single and double precision for reals and ints are the same size. Except for 64-bit reals (AKA double precision), which bring the whole thing back again. (If you say you don't need DP, I'll believe you... but you're not the whole world). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com