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From: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Tyro questions
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Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 09:52:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  8 09:52:45 1986
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In article <4808@ism780c.UUCP> darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) writes:
>My
>machine doesn't support floating point in hardware, so the module SYSTEM
>includes routines for all the needed floating point code.  This means that all
>programs that I build have a complete floating point interpretter in them,
>even though I rarely (not so far) use it.  

   Generally, stuff in module SYSTEM isn't really "there", in the sense
that stuff in, e.g., Strings is.  SYSTEM is a pseudo-module whose functions
are normally implemented directly by the compiler.  Thus, either there is
nothing to link in, or the linkage decision is made differently than you
would expect. 


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    Dan Frank
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