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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Anybody floating out there?
Keywords: floating-point
Message-ID: <1900@randvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 17:20:35 GMT
Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Ca.
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V7 had it; heck, even V6 had (buggy) floating-point support (at least
the rather hacked-up version I used did).  Why doesn't MINIX support
it?  I'm tired of having to use DOS compilers for any C program with a
decimal point in it.

Why promote math illiteracy? :-)

The compiler at least seems to half-way support floating-point,
producing calls to various non-existant routines when FP is used but
generating zero for any FP constant.  Does anyone know if it produces
correct code (other than for constants), given that the missing
support routines are somehow supplied?

Has anyone gotten floating-point working under MINIX?

		-Ed Hall
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