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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:21:01 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        un_x@hotmail.com (steve  howe)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: float
Message-ID:  <19970331142101.YD01026@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199703310958.BAA12465@f4.hotmail.com>; from  steve  howe on Mar 31, 1997 01:58:48 -0800
References:  <199703310958.BAA12465@f4.hotmail.com>

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As  steve  howe wrote:

> can anyone tell me if FreeBSD will support IEEE DOUBLE FLOATS
> anytime soon?

Huh?

We do.  We don't support the complete IEEE exception vs. non-exception
(NaN, infinity etc.) handling, but the default double is 64 bits.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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