On Tuesday 04 December 2001 01:32 pm, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Okay, here's the decree.
> >
> > FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE
> > floats.
>
> You mean something like this?
> -prompt("And your floats?", 'nv');
> +prompt("And your floats? (only 64-bit IEEE floats are supported)", 'nv');
Er, no. Floats (internal to Parrot) can be whatever the platform can
support. This is strictly floats as constants in packfiles, for portability
reasons. On extracting floats, they'll be converted to native.
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Bryan C. Warnock
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