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From: brooks@lll-crg.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III)
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Subject: Re: Can C default to float? Are there float regs?
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 21:09:34 EDT
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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