[net.micro.att] Cc with automatic -f is not enough

sam@delftcc.UUCP (Samuel C. Kendall) (06/28/85)

> ... [I]f the 3B2  n e e d s  the '-f' flag, it
> should automagically be included at compile time.
> 
> 	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}

That's a start, but what about object code portability?  Currently, a
program compiled without the -f flag on systems with floating point
won't run on systems without fp; conversely, a program compiled with -f
will be too large, and run much too slowly, on a system with fp.  (Or
will the interpreter be ignored at runtime on systems with fp?)
Automatic -f won't help this problem.

What is needed is for the interpreter to be dynamically loaded on
systems without fp -- ideally at the time the first fp instruction is
encountered, otherwise at load time.

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