Mark Williams C
Kenneth Soohoo
kens at atari.UUCP
Wed Jun 14 02:25:06 AEST 1989
In article <381 at laas.laas.fr> ralph at laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
>
>Since the previous postings were discussing what one complier supports
>or does not support, I have a simple question.
>
>Is it true that MWC does not support the IEEE floating point standard?
>Is it in the queue? According to our local ST mag (precisely: ST
>Magazine), they stated that MWC uses the DEC standard.
>
Yes, Ralph, MWC _does_ support the DEC format, which isn't a heck of a lot
of help with the MC6881 floating point co-processor board, which uses IEEE
standard floating point. As far as _I_ know, MWC has plans to support
IEEE in the near future (i.e. "we're working on it, OK???").
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
'881 sits on in a Mega, it'd be _really_ hard to make the equivalent slot
for a 520/1040 style machine, sorry.
--
Kenneth Soohoo {ames,imagen,portal}!atari!kens
Atari Engineering
"So Atari doesn't necessarily agree with me, so what!"
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