What is "__fltused" symbol?

[Richard Foulk]

>
>I can state this with some confidence as I was the original author
>of the 386 C compiler on the System V/386 release.  I was also the person
>that had to make the decision to put the variable in the compiler in
>the first place.
>

Author?  Sounds like alot of re-inventing the wheel.  Isn't the compiler
a port of pcc or something?  Just curious where it actually came from.
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