At 01:33 AM 10/12/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>If floats are so non-portable, why do we have a constant table section for
>them?

Because I was thinking we could reasonably easily fix up IEEE floats into 
native format on systems that didn't do IEEE natively. I think that was a 
bad idea now, so some sort of portable float is probably a good idea.


                                        Dan

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