Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!demon!news
From: pmoore@cix.compulink.co.uk (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Floating Point Emulator
Message-ID: <1991May13.184500.13782@demon.co.uk>
Date: 13 May 91 18:45:00 GMT
Sender: news@demon.co.uk (C-News Owner)
Reply-To: Paul Moore <pmoore@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Organization: Gated to News by demon.co.uk
Lines: 27

Hi,

I have an application which I am looking to make into a module.
Specifically, it is a C port of the perl language. I would like to make
a module, so I can RMLoad it once, and have perl available like Basic.
The process seems reasonably straightforward to me, reading my C manual.
However, the program uses the Shared C library, and the Floating Point
Emulator extensively. (Ie, it is written in C, and it uses floating
point variables.)

I have heard rumours that it is not possible to use the FPE from within
a module. Is there any truth in this?

If so, how can I make a program which uses floating point into a
module??? Surely it must be possible?

Gustav.

E-Mail: pmoore%cix@ukc.ac.uk
    or: gustav@tharr.UUCP