Where's the SPARK in my SPARC????

[David R. Blythe]

In article <3001 at charon.cwi.nl> dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>
>The major problem is that the -fsingle flag is nearly useless for original
>K&R C.  Suppose you have a routine whose declaration reads:
>	void rout(s) float s; { ... }
>this is effectively the same as declaring:
>	void rout(s) double s; { ... }
>and within the routine all calculations involving s are effectively done
>in double rather than float *regardless to whether the -fsingle flag was
>used or not*.

This is also true for the SGI compiler so its not likely the PI got any big
performance advantage from that.
	-drb