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Re: Should java be enabled for non-IEEE FP architectures?
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, matt at 3am-software dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 04:24:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Should java be enabled for non-IEEE FP architectures?
<Since Java specifies that it must use IEEE FP, should Java even
be enabled on architecures that don't implement IEEE FP (such as
the VAX)?
>
I don't see any great harm, as long as the limitation is understood.
AFter all nearly all Java implementations on the x86 cheat and do
not use exactly the right fpt model (it is too expensive to do so :-)