> Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> > Every bug that has been there since 1983 is a feature you can't simply
> > remove ;) As far as SBasic is concerned many oddities in rounding, sign,
> > etc may cause trouble if left out.
>
> Yes, I see the point, but there are already several code variants
> around. QDOS uses other floating point routines than Minerva/SMSQ/E,
> for example. Then there were the Lightning maths extensions etc.
Ligthning was never considered reasonably compatible to anything, SMSQ
had its share of bugs fixed. SMSQ and Minerva *had* to do it because of
copyright, its not a something I would do for fun.
> > I would think new programs should use the FPU if available and old ones
> > probaly don't care about any speed improvement anyway.
>
> Every SBasic program and every program that uses the system graphics
> calls profits from it.
thats what makes me shudder - not few Sbasic programs use floating point
variables to store values for binary arithmetics and the like.
Bye
Richard
