From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c95a73ec6ed5f174 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tom Moran Subject: Re: Floating point problem Date: 1997/03/29 Message-ID: <333E18D8.1F84@bix.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 229422151 References: <199703271518_MC2-1360-15BE@compuserve.com> <1997Mar28.095005.1@eisner> Organization: InterNex Information Services 1-800-595-3333 Reply-To: tmoran@bix.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar said: > Actually I would guess that Larry is not in fact concerned about trying > to use GNAt in that environment for his own use, but is rather operating > in "gadfly" mode, Apparently forgetting that Larry had said: > I had hoped GNAT might be useful for deployment. > Just to make sure we are on the same wavelength, my concern is > entirely with what happens at runtime with generated programs. > For running the compiler I can buy (actually already have) some > appropriate machines. But, knowing that FPU detection code can be found in Intel docs, is it possible for a user program to run that code early enough (ie before the RTS or elaboration code has crashed and burned) to give a nice error message to the user? (Having many years ago found that any attempt to run MASM would hang my brand new 286 because MS didn't test properly for an FPU, I'm personally curious about this.)