Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/28/84; site lll-crg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!brooks From: brooks@lll-crg.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Can C default to float? Are there float regs? Message-ID: <851@lll-crg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 21:09:34 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.851 Posted: Tue Sep 17 21:09:34 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 05:18:39 EDT References: <418@phri.UUCP> <700002@fthood> <187@graffiti.UUCP> <175@mit-bug.UUCP> <766@nmtvax.UUCP> Reply-To: brooks@lll-crg.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III) Organization: Lawernce Livermore Labs, CRG group Lines: 5 It is just a shame that the FP11 on the old PDP11 did not support both single and double floats in its registers at the same time. If it did this problem would not have been in C from the beginning! It will of course dissapear eventually, abeit more slowly than the PDP11