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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Floating point support in GCC
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.085253.25654@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 21 Apr 91 08:52:53 GMT
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In article <10752@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@descartes.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
>Wouldn't setjmp and longjmp have to be changed to support  saving '87
>registers?

Not for most implementations, because the '87 registers are usually not
left alive across function calls (because it would be difficult to handle
'87 stack overflow).
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au