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From: keith@uport.UUCP (Keith Hankin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.microport,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT&T 386 UNIX Vr3.1
Message-ID: <446@uport.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 88 23:31:40 GMT
References: <145@carpet.WLK.COM> <441@uport.UUCP> <176@djs.UUCP>
Reply-To: keith@uport.UUCP (Keith Hankin)
Organization: Microport Systems, Scotts Valley, CA
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In article <176@djs.UUCP> samperi@djs.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
|In article <441@uport.UUCP> keith@uport.UUCP (Keith Hankin) writes:
||Microport's C compiler is THE SAME COMPILER that you get from AT&T.  Any
||problems with Microport's compiler should be the same with AT&T.
||Perhaps you got a very new version of the AT&T C compiler, one which we
||do not yet have to ship.
|
|I've used AT&T's C compiler under Sys V Rel. 2 on a 3B2/300 since before
|Microport existed, and it has NEVER caused the system to panic when I run
|trivial programs that do some floating point operations.
|-- 
|Dominick Samperi
|    samperi@acf8.nyu.edu             uunet!hombre!samperi
|    cmcl2!acf8!samperi               rutgers!acf8.nyu.edu!samperi
|      (^ ell)

3B2 machines have been around a lot longer, and a compiler for a 3B2,
with regard to floating point handling is completely different.  AT&T
has had a more difficult time (apparently) with the floating point in
80287 and 80387 environments.



-- 
Keith Hankin	keith@uport
Microport Systems