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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11@pucc.princeton.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Compiling c68 with ACK
Message-ID: <42397@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 04:50:14 GMT
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Clearly, you must have the ACK floating-point patches installed.
Otherwise, c68 will bomb since  it uses floating point code even when parsing
an integer number (how else would you cope with FP constants like
123456789876543421.12345 ?)

If you compile c68 with -DNOFLOAT, c68 does not use FP code, and it cannot
generate correct FP constants for this reason.

Guys, I have always mentioned that c68 needs a compiler featuring floatingpoint
to be compiled!

If you do not have the floating point extensions, you can compile c68 on
a PC, a workstation or whatever system with a 'full' C-Compiler you have,
let c68 compile itself there and transfer the assembler files to your
MINIX box.