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Re: real.c implementation
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, lucier at math dot purdue dot edu
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:00:39 -0700
- Subject: Re: real.c implementation
- References: <20021022034256.4EE31F2D5D@nile.gnat.com>
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:42:56PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
> The same is true of course for Ada, but what we do in Ada is have the
> front end take care of everything, we do not trust the back end of GCC
> or the assembler to do conversions correctly.
>
> I am surprised that the Mercury compiler does not take the same approach.
That seems like a complete waste of effort. Why not do it
correctly, once, in the right place?
r~