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From: fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: floating point problem
Date: 1997/03/10
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Date: 1997-03-10T00:00:00+00:00
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>The GNAT limitation is that it only supports x86 environments in which
>full floating-point support is available, either at the hardware level
>or through transparent emulation.

Is this a limitation of the gcc backend (and hence also of GNU C, GNU C++,
GNU Fortran, etc.), or is this specific to the GNAT front-end?

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