[comp.os.minix] Book clarifications...

rmgtkro@ark.UUCP (04/11/87)

In article <1217@ethos.UUCP> darren@ethos.UUCP (Darren Friedlein) writes:
>
>I just got the MINIX book (sources on the way) and I can't wait to get started.
>There were a few points that seemed to need clarification (or correction) that
>I thought some of you with the disks already could answer.  In appendix A,
>several references are made about the float type - "...MINIX does not use
>them."  Does this mean that MINIX the program doesn't use them or that the
>compiler won't handle them?!?  
>
>-Darren

The compiler knows them, but there are NO library routines, so...

Rob ten Kroode (rmgtkro@cs.vu.nl)