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Article #50514Clarification? floating point emulation
From: Sean D. True
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 00:14
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 00:14
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The NEWS file for 2.4 says "there is now a floating point emulator which can imitate the way all supported target machines do floating point". Does this mean that there is a run-time emulator for programs that do floating point on machines without FPU (i386 w/o 387)? -or- Does this mean that the compiler can cross-compile floating point expressions into the right format for a target processor? -or- Does this mean something completely different? Thanks. Sean True seant@ratsys.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11318c,3dc1bfaa6df2f258,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-09-17 21:29:23 PST Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!nigel.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!ratsys.com!bluefish.ratsys.com!seant From: seant@bluefish.ratsys.com (Sean D. True) Subject: Clarification? floating point emulation Message-ID: <1993Sep18.001445.5848@uunet!rational> Sender: usenet@uunet!rational (Network News Desk) Organization: Rational Systems, Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 00:14:45 GMT Lines: 16