Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!netsys!tsl
From: tsl@netsys.UUCP (Tom Livingston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Missing option in Turbo C
Message-ID: <2184@netsys.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 20:21:13 GMT
References: <5131@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: tsl@netsys.UUCP (Tom Livingston,Contributor)
Organization: NetSys Public Access Network
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In article <5131@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay) writes:
>I just added a 80287 to my AT clone.  The Turbo C programs seemed to
>speed up, but I wanted to measure the exact amount that they sped up.
>However, with Turbo C there seems no way to disable the use of the
>80287 if one is installed.
>
>Tim

	Just link at the command line, following the instructions in the
appendix.  You have a choice of either linking in the emu or fp87 libraries,
emu giving you software floating point emulation, fp87 giving you '87
support, and nothing giving your no floating point support.

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