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From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP
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Subject: C floating point support
Message-ID: <15204@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 15:26:35 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 15:26:35 1987
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Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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In article <2181@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner) writes:
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>Not very long ago most C compilers came without FP support at all, presumably
>assuming that C was used for system programming only.

Please!  The very first C compiler, for the PDP-11, had floating point
support at least by 1975.  All C compilers I know of that were derived
from AT&T code also had FP support.

Now, some C-subset compilers, particularly those written for micros,
may have lacked FP support, but they hardly represent the majority
of C compilers.