APEARSON%WAYNEST1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Patrick Haggood) (07/18/89)
I have the need to produce programs requiring floating point under minix. Is there a floating point library for the ACK compiler, or, is there another compiler available under minix?
Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty) (07/18/89)
My best advice is to cross-compile and use another compiler's math library. I understand small-C had a bizarre mechanism to encapsulate floating point in function calls... I'd hate to see Minix adopt something like this. For all practically purposes, you can implememnt floating point data types as character arrays or structures or something. Is floating point going to be included in future Minix releases? Or do we wait for gcc on the 386? [BTW -- ast makes an excellent point about how much you can accomplish without floating point -- i.e. all of Minix. I've seen too many programs use floating point unnecessarily]. marty ARPA: leisner.henr@xerox.com GV: leisner.henr NS: leisner:wbst139:xerox UUCP: hplabs!arisia!leisner
housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel) (07/19/89)
In article <19965@louie.udel.EDU>, APEARSON@WAYNEST1.BITNET (Patrick Haggood) writes: >I have the need to produce programs requiring floating point under >minix. Is there a floating point library for the ACK compiler, or, >is there another compiler available under minix? Wait another week or two... I have a floating point kit for Minix-PC that is mostly done and ready to post. The elementary functions library is currently very sparse, but the basis for something bigger is there. -Peter S. Housel- housel@ecn.purdue.edu ...!pur-ee!housel
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (07/19/89)
In article <19968@louie.udel.EDU> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty) writes: >Is floating point going to be included in future Minix releases? If enough people express an interest, I'll look into it for V2.0. What's wrong with the numbers between 0 and 255? They are all nice numbers. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
umbaugh@hcx (Dr David L. Umbaugh) (07/19/89)
From: Andy Tanenbaum <ast@cs.vu.nl> If enough people express an interest, I'll look into it for V2.0. What's wrong with the numbers between 0 and 255? They are all nice numbers. I especially think 0.035729 is nice. :-) Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) Dave Umbaugh <umbaugh@hcx.arl.utexas.edu>
wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) (07/20/89)
In article <2905@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >If enough people express an interest, I'll look into it for V2.0. What's >wrong with the numbers between 0 and 255? They are all nice numbers. > >Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) Nothing. It's just that most of us (hint, hint :-) realize that there are many more then 256 numbers between 0 and 255. :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Wayne Hayes INTERNET: wayne@csri.toronto.edu CompuServe: 72401,3525
pshen@atrp.mit.edu (Paul Shen) (07/23/89)
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >In article <19968@louie.udel.EDU> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty) writes: >>Is floating point going to be included in future Minix releases? >If enough people express an interest, I'll look into it for V2.0. What's >wrong with the numbers between 0 and 255? They are all nice numbers. Well, those numbers between 0 and 1 are more useful. I think it is a good idea to include the floating point in the future releases too. Paul +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Email: pshen@atrp.mit.edu | Paul Shen | | Address: MIT, 36-665, Cambridge, Ma 02139 | Tel. (617) 864-3210 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
muller@cs.mu.oz.au (Paul Muller) (07/24/89)
>What's > wrong with the numbers between 0 and 255? They are all nice numbers. > Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) Nothing, it all depends on how many numbers you _think_ there should be between 0 and 255. :-) to R or not to R? That is the question... (whether it is nobler to be J?) BIG SMILEY paul (a proposed referendum to keep maths jokes out of comp.os.minix)