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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
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Subject: Re: Compiler comparisons (object code)
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Date: 12 Dec 90 06:14:12 GMT
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In article <8484@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>I suspect these are the a.out sizes.  The large increase with the ANSI
>compiler is due to ANSI itself.  It requires all kinds of horrible things,
>like the ability to handle %f in printf and heaven-knows-what involving
>time.  I am fairly sure most of the increase is due to the larger libraries
>required by ANSI.  

Wow!  Does this mean that 1.6.0, with the ANSI C compiler, will have
floating point support?  (That sure would make us engineering types
happy.)

<inserting foot in mouth, I say:>  I volunteer to write library routines
(or adapt somebody else's) to support the 80x87 co-processor, and modify
the kernel as required.  Somebody else can do it for the superior but
less ubiquitous Motorola chips.

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