Re: float constants

2001-10-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
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 n

float constants

2001-10-11 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
If floats are so non-portable, why do we have a constant table section for them? Or is that temporary? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]