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!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!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: <857@lll-crg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 14:08:54 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.857 Posted: Fri Sep 20 14:08:54 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 06:12:42 EDT References: <418@phri.UUCP> <700002@fthood> <187@graffiti.UUCP> <175@mit-bug.UUCP> <897@turtlevax.UUCP> <698@sfmag.UUCP> Reply-To: brooks@lll-crg.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III) Organization: Lawernce Livermore Labs, CRG group Lines: 8 In reply to the comment concerning the difficulty of doing double register vars right with pcc. FOO on this! This problem is no different than getting longs done right on the PDP 11. It has been done at Caltech for one place and that compiler, which does single arithmetic in single and allocates both single and double floats in registers properly has been in use for many years. Like any compiler modification it has to be done right but it is not that difficult.