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From: ast@botter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Floating point
Message-ID: <1138@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 17:26:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 11 17:26:28 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Apr-87 00:00:04 EST
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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The MINIX C compiler correctly handles floating point.  It compiles code
for floating point arithmetic into calls to library routines.  At present
these routines just print something like "Floating pt not implemented".
To add floating point, somebody (not me) would have to write a set of floating
point routines.  It shouldn't be that hard, but I haven't used a number
larger than 255 in years.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)