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Re: Cross-compiler between machines with different floating pointformat

To: moshier at mediaone dot net
Subject: Re: Cross-compiler between machines with different floating pointformat
From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:11:14 -0700
CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0008260936140.1160-100000@moshier.ne.mediaone.net>

> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:41:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Stephen L Moshier <moshier@mediaone.net>

> Has there be a bug report about this?

It's not a bug, it's a missing feature.

> What is the problem with VMS?  Which backend has the problem?

We don't have an emulator for the VMS floating-point format, so the
compiler can't do any arithmetic at compile time on such values.  All
VMS ports (which is I believe only VAX and Alpha at this point) are
affected.
-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

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