Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 08:10:53 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: huntercr AT cs DOT purdue DOT edu
Subject: Re: more FPU woes...
Cc: DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> Why oh *why* does "make" use FPU instructions??? What are they needed for?

Not only Make, GNU Sed also has this problem.  I don't know about Make,
but Sed needs this because the regex package it uses does some small
computation with doubles.  It is so small that it can easily be emulated
with integers (a-la fixed point).  In the case of Sed, I wrote to its GNU
maintainer and he agreed that ``it was silly'' (his words) and promised
to correct this in a future version.  I suggest you (or someone else who's
unhappy about this misfeature) do the same about Make.  The only thing you
have to do is to search the Make sources for ``double'', ``float'' and the
likes.