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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
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Subject: Re: C Floating point arithmetic
Message-ID: <286@well.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 14:39:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 14:39:26 1985
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Summary: single precision 8087s?

In article <3369@brl-tgr.ARPA>, Schauble@mit-multics.arpa (Paul Schauble) writes:
> Does anyone know of a C compiler for the IBM PC that does NOT force all
> floating point arithmetic to be done in double precision? 8087 support
> is necessary.
> 
>                     Thanks,
>                     Paul

    Yes, but the 8087 forces conversion to double-precision anyway, there
is no way to avoid it. Why would you want to?

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