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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI
	autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252
X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-25 03:26:25 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!193.251.151.101!opentransit.net!wanadoo.fr!teaser.fr!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail
From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Java portability (was: An Ada IDE and discussions)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 05:23:26 -0500
Organization: ENST, France
Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
Message-ID: <mailman.996056675.27751.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
References: <mailman.995648003.8404.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
 <%cR67.1385$mz6.4505748@nnrp3.proxad.net>
 <9jgopl$5v6$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <kvqgj9.e9r.ln@gargamel.hqd-internal>
 <9jh2cv$aon$2@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <877kwycfw7.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
 <9jm17i$6l7$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net>
Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 996056684 73777 137.194.161.2 (25 Jul 2001 10:24:44
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:24:44 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Return-Path: <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4
Precedence: bulk
List-Help: <mailto:comp.lang.ada-request@ada.eu.org?subject=help>
List-Post: <mailto:comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
List-Subscribe: <http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada>,
	<mailto: comp.lang.ada-request@ada.eu.org?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway <comp.lang.ada.ada.eu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada>,
	<mailto: comp.lang.ada-request@ada.eu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://ada.eu.org/pipermail/comp.lang.ada/>
Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10557
Date: 2001-07-25T05:23:26-05:00


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: July 25, 2001 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: Java portability (was: An Ada IDE and discussions)


>
> "Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de> a �crit dans le message news:
877kwycfw7.fsf@deneb.enyo.de...
> > "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
> >
> > > And is the result really portable? Even for numerics on a non-IEEE
> > > machine ?
> >
> > Yes, I think so. Some people claim that the JVM support for floating
> > point operations was designed so that it runs fast and correctly only
> > on Sun's hardware. ;-)
> What makes you think so ? The trouble is that Java *requires* IEEE
arithmetic. On non IEEE hardware you have a choice of a) emulate
> IEEE in software (correct and slow) or b) ignore the requirement (incorrect
and fast). On a non-IEEE number-crunching machine (like
> SGI), my bet is that the solution b) will be taken, hence my concern...
Which SGI machine doesn't do IEEE arithmetic? all the SGI machines
I ever used did.

To be sure, the concern, in general, is a valid one.

>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>            J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr)
> Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> comp.lang.ada mailing list
> comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
> http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada
>