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On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:28:06 -0700
"Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> wrote:

> > The compiler proper does not emit FPU instructions or
> > floating-point constants. It emits calls to support routines...  
> 
> If this is the case, and being that SmallerC is self compilable,
> did you compile/assemble the math library with something else?

Why would he need floating point to compile the compiler? ...

> In the end, the math library must have FPU instructions in
> it, therefore, you have to either compile it with another
> compiler that does emit these instructions, or you hand
> assembled a library.

The compiler just needs to emit the correct instructions
as assembly, which the compiler can do with printf(), or
as binary, which a compiler could do with byte sequences,
i.e., emits unsigned char's to a binary stream.


Rod Pemberton

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misc comments "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2016-03-01 17:21 -0700
  Re: misc comments "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 21:52 -0800
    Re: misc comments "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2016-03-02 10:28 -0700
      Re: misc comments Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-02 18:58 -0500
        Re: misc comments "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2016-03-03 12:04 -0700
      Re: misc comments "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 23:41 -0800
  Re: misc comments Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-02 18:58 -0500
    Re: misc comments "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2016-03-03 12:08 -0700

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