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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Compiler comparisons (object code)
Message-ID: <8504@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:33:29 GMT
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In article <28769@usc> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>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.)

The ANSI compiler fully supports floating point.  It can both use the 8087
chip or emulate it in software.   The compiler is in beta test now.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)