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David Wolverton gives 3 of the most common methods for doing floating
point in an environment where the availability of floating point 
hardware is unknown.  I suggest that the most common method, however,
is to assume that floating point hardware does not exist.  In Unix this
is accomplished by having the cc command map to cc -f which uses library
routines that do not check for the presence of floating point hardware.

If floating point hardware is subsequently installed, the C compiler
invocation routine (/bin/cc usually) is changed to cause pass 2 to emit
actual floating point code of the desired type.

-- 
John Cornelius
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