[Bug c/32447] without-decimal-float needed

[malitzke at metronets dot com]

------- Comment #1 from malitzke at metronets dot com  2007-06-21 08:08 -------
Disclosure:

I am not an IBM hater and never was. My first significant program ran on an IBM
1410 with a Tape Operating System (TOS) on the day President Kennedy was
assassinated. I then used an IBM 1620 II extensively.; migrated to an IBM 1800
and to an IBM 1130. All worked well for these early systems, but, I had to open
the door fairly often late at night for an IBM customer service man. At another
firm I worked with the then largest and newest IBM 360's. Overall, I had twice
teams come from the Almaden Labs to resolve issues with DASD's and the FORTRAN
H compiler (early seventies).

On the other hand I really got to hate PL/I, as I could interpret ABEND dumps
and  colleagues came to my office with 1-2 feet high dumps that mostly by the
PL/I compiler going off on a tangent. This interfered with my work and I turned
to satellite telecommunications. 

I only returned to programming as a hobby and as a retirement activity. 


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32447