Re: Green Hills 64 Bit Float Problem on PowerPC 603

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>]

Why should be trick because it's a real time system? If need be just
cut-and-paste the type in to a simple 'main' procedure and to some
stuff.

Mind you those logistics of yours sound a bit of an nightmare - why
not send the code here and get someone with a handy rig to get
some results! :-)

> Well, its a real time system.  Inserting anything isn't exactly the
easiest
> thing to do.  None of the code for it is mine - I'd have to get someone to
> make a special build, maybe init a long float to a certain value and then
> capture it.  It'd involve a special lab run at a lab that's a matter of a
half
> hour or so to bring on line, etc.  No, the easiest thing would be for
someone
> here with specific knowledge of how a Power PC chip on an MVME board
treats
> long floats to gimmie a clue about it! <G>