From:	"Joel_S" <jbs30000 DOT news DOT invalid AT web2news DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: FPU
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:56:34 +0100
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> "Joel_S" <jbs30000 DOT news DOT invalid AT web2news DOT net> wrote in
> message news:<19001N297 AT web2news DOT com>...
>> Since DJGPP uses AT&T assembly syntax, then that probably
>> means that FPU
>> commands would be slightly different than Intel syntax.
>> Is there a web
>> site that goes over using FPU commands in DJGPP?
>
> I also interested in references to FPU handling on the same platform
> by different compilers. I recently tested C++ application (MegaPOV)
> with set of compilers: OpenWatcom 1.0, DMC 8.32, DJGPP gcc 3.2,
> Borland 5.51, Borland 6.0, MinGW gcc 3.2. All were compiled and
> started on the same platform - NT4 on Pentium 2. In particular I was
> concerned on simple loop with heavily used doubles to control its
> execution. I noticed that each compiler caused different number of
> iterations (only B5.51==B6.0 which can be expected).
>
> If I write something like
>
>   #define M_PI   3.1415926535897932384626
>   double my_PI = M_PI;
>
> should I expect the same internall bit representation of 'my_PI' on
> the same platform with mentioned compilers or not (considering all
> compilers use the same number of bytes for double) ?
>
> Since it is not DJGPP specific issue (but related) is there any other
> forum where this issue can be continued ?
>
> ABX
I'm not sure.  Sorry.
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