Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Floating point support in GCC Message-ID: <4532@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 22 Apr 91 14:43:50 GMT References: <280C657A.14449@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <10752@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 14 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? Yes, in theory at least. As far as I recall, gcc doesn't do much with the 387, so maybe in practice there's nothing that needs saving outside floating point expressions. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin