[comp.lang.c] C floating point support

dave@onfcanim.UUCP (02/05/87)

In article <2181@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner) writes:
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>Not very long ago most C compilers came without FP support at all, presumably
>assuming that C was used for system programming only.

Please!  The very first C compiler, for the PDP-11, had floating point
support at least by 1975.  All C compilers I know of that were derived
from AT&T code also had FP support.

Now, some C-subset compilers, particularly those written for micros,
may have lacked FP support, but they hardly represent the majority
of C compilers.