Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 13:53:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Jan Louwerens <jlouwere AT galaxy DOT csc DOT calpoly DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: floating point
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On 2 May 1996, Jan Louwerens wrote:

> I know that some GNU compilers under Unix cast floats to doubles before
> doing operations on them and then cast them back to floats. This would make
> using doubles faster than using floats. I was wondering if the same was true
> for DJGPP. Any help would be appreciated.

The same in DJGPP.  (There are almost no changes in the way the compiler 
operates, so anything GCC does on x86 platforms under Unix it also does 
in DJGPP.)