Mark Williams C

Klamer Schutte n62 at nikhefh.hep.nl
Wed Jun 14 20:13:31 AEST 1989


In article <1557 at atari.UUCP> kens at atari.UUCP (Kenneth Soohoo) writes:
>In article <381 at laas.laas.fr> ralph at 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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