C Floating point arithmetic

Mike Farren farren at well.UUCP
Thu Nov 21 05:39:26 AEST 1985


In article <3369 at brl-tgr.ARPA>, Schauble at mit-multics.arpa (Paul Schauble) writes:
> Does anyone know of a C compiler for the IBM PC that does NOT force all
> floating point arithmetic to be done in double precision? 8087 support
> is necessary.
> 
>                     Thanks,
>                     Paul

    Yes, but the 8087 forces conversion to double-precision anyway, there
is no way to avoid it. Why would you want to?

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