Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:41:49 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: current@freebsd.org, phk@phk.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: historical stuff in math(3) Message-ID: <200401211141.i0LBfnp57845@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <14141.1074670873@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> > > Isn't all the vax-D format related stuff math(3) getting pretty old ? It's very similar to the IBM mainframe format. So, a port of FreeBSD to the IBM mainframe could still use it. (The VAX format was just a copy of the IBM one with an extra precision bit thrown in every now-and-then.) But - even the mainframe has an available/alternate IEEE format now, and the mainframe version of gcc uses that... (although, our C/C++ compiler for mainframe Linux can optionally use the older format.) - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com
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