Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmm.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!mmm!boone From: boone@mmm.UUCP (David Boone) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: ANSI C suggestions Message-ID: <108@mmm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 09:34:45 EDT Article-I.D.: mmm.108 Posted: Wed Oct 17 09:34:45 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:28:11 EDT References: <228@boulder.UUCP>, <141@geowhiz.UUCP> Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn. Lines: 12 The need for single precision routines is almost mandatory. On the pdp-11 the conversion from single precison to double precision involves only pushing an extra word of zero. On my 68k systems, with software handling the floating point, it takes around 12 instructions to perform the conversion (IEEE format). Don't say buy a floating point co-processor. I should not have to cover up with hardware botches in the language. ...!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!mmm!boone David Boone