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From: | drupp AT cs DOT washington DOT edu (Douglas Rupp) |
Message-Id: | <199607281656.JAA16800@june.cs.washington.edu> |
Subject: | Re: Long double support |
To: | sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) |
Date: | Sun, 28 Jul 1996 09:56:20 -0700 (PDT) |
Cc: | dj AT delorie DOT com, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com |
In-Reply-To: | <9607281607.AA11318@clio.rice.edu> from "Charles Sandmann" at Jul 28, 96 11:07:55 am |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
> > > Beware the TurboC FAQ: "What does it mean when it says `floating point > > formats not linked?'". > > > > I'd rather have a bloated printf than another FAQ. > > I think a "hello world" program which is over 50K will generate a lot more FAQs > than looking for support for long-long and long-double. At some point even > people who read the FAQ will ask "why - it's not that way on other compilers". > If you count mailing/news hits on the two subjects over the last few years ... > don't make a perceived problem worse. > > As a matter of fact - I think the linking in DJGPP.ENV environment code > by a typical user app should probably be OFF by default (I inserted the null > version into the libc which I use for everything except rebuilding > distribution apps). > Maybe if you bloated up the C programs, we GNATers would hear less whining about how big Ada programs are. :-)
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