Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!brl-adm!adm!dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa
From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C and Floating Point
Message-ID: <6824@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 12:08:43 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-adm.6824
Posted: Fri Apr 10 12:08:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 17:26:18 EST
Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA
Lines: 17

Guy Harris wrote:
>The standard allows a compiler to implement "#pragma" directives that
>can affect the compiler's behavior.

It sounds like this is just what we need.

>No, there's no guaranteed standard way of saying "only do these optimiz-
>ations", but nobody ever said life was fair.

Surely it's not to late to devise a standard way of doing this...

>A few strategically-placed "#ifdef"s never hurt anybody.

I'm not sure I know what you mean by this.  Could you give me an example?

-Dave Sill
 dsill@nswc-oas.arpa