On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:44:19 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >What I find the most disappoinging about that list is it forces you to >FLOAT(IEEE)! How useful is that for most assembler programs? I suppose >it's to keep the size of the runtime down >to only support functions for one floating point standard. That really >sucks! I could care less about ARCH(0) > Look forward, not back. HFP is _so_ 20th Century. And how much floating point of a particular flavor is needed in the kernel-type code which is the target environment of METAL-C?
Disabling DFP may incur greater burdens. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
