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Re: real.c implementation


Andrew Haley writes:
 > Matt Thomas writes:
 >  > At 01:55 AM 10/22/2002, Andrew Haley wrote:
 >  > > gcj, if course, requires exact IEEE float conversion and
 >  > >relies on gcc to do it right,
 >  > 
 >  > And what happens if the platform doesn't have IEEE floating point and
 >  > uses a different floating point format?
 > 
 > Then it can't support Java.

Sorry, that's too crude: gcj cannot, in its present state, conform to
the Java Language Specifciation on such a machine.

Andrew.


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