Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Compiler comparisons (object code) Message-ID: <39064@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 14 Dec 90 09:00:46 GMT Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Lines: 5 do not write libraries to support 80x87, is is better to support this directly in the code generator. when I worked on my 386 code generator yesterday, I learned that the 80387 is very friendly to code generator writers since it is a stack machine. C.v.W.