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Article #239Re: Mark Williams C
From: Klamer Schutte
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1989 10:13
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1989 10:13
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In article <1557@atari.UUCP> kens@atari.UUCP (Kenneth Soohoo) writes:
>In article <381@laas.laas.fr> ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
>>Is it true that MWC does not support the IEEE floating point standard?
>Yes, Ralph, MWC _does_ support the DEC format, which isn't a heck of a lot
>You should check out, oh, any number of other compilers if you _really_ need
>IEEE... Aztec, Alycon... ;-) Oh, and regarding the expansion bus which the
Or you can try TURBOC; it is nice, and support IEEE (extended format, 80 bits
for calculations and normal, 32 bits for float).
Klamer
PS 1 I do not have a 6888n; so i haven't tried whether it is really IEEE
PS 2 I am not connected to Borland, the Turbo company
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!nikhefh!n62 From: n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Mark Williams C Message-ID: <211@nikhefh.hep.nl> Date: 14 Jun 89 10:13:31 GMT References: <24094@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <431fba10.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP> <8137@boring.cwi.nl> <8530@chinet.chi.il.us> <13475@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1000@twwells.uucp> <13522@haddock.ima.isc.com> <10361@smoke.BRL.MIL> <381@laas.laas.fr> <1557@atari.UUCP> Reply-To: n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Lines: 20