osd@hou2d.UUCP (Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz) (01/21/86)
From: Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz (The Moderator) <cbosgd!std-c>
mod.std.c Digest Tue, 21 Jan 86 Volume 13 : Issue 3
Today's Topics:
Near and far pointers
Remainder on floats
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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 86 00:55 EST
From: Paul Schauble <Schauble@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA>
Subject: Near and far pointers
To: cbosgd!std-c
The current version of Microsoft C has an extension to the language that
allows one to declare individual pointers as long or short. (This
probably only makes sense if you program the Intel 8086.) I understand
that they have proposed this extension for the C standard. Can someone
tell me if this is true, and, if so, does it look like it will be
accepted??
Thanks,
Paul
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 86 01:47:46 PST
From: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore)
Subject: Remainder on floats
To:
I was surprised to discover that the C language does not define the
remainder operation (%) on floats. It's certainly clear that this is
useful (ever do argument reduction for transcendentals?) and there
are good definitions of it, e.g. in the IEEE float spec. Is this
just a historical problem (e.g. the PDP-11 didn't have the instruction
so it's not in C) and is this likely to get fixed by the standard?
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End of mod.std.c Digest - Tue, 21 Jan 86 08:23:31 EST
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