Re: _FINAL_ release MiNTlib PL48

[Yves Pelletier <ypell@cam.org>]

On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Petr Stehlik wrote:

> BTW, is it normal that I still can't compile atof.c from pre-pl48?
> Assembler reports "cannot crate floating-point number". The final pl48
> is compiled OK.

Yes.  DBL_MAX, as defined in pre-pl48 libs, is slightly too big
for the newest implementations of gas and gcc.  Funny thing, is
that this seems to mean that new gas/gcc are slightly off the
IEEE standard.

If someone could provide me with authoritative figures to use in
float.h, that would be helpful.

Yves