From:	Kevin AT Quitt DOT net (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: floating point/numeric question
Date:	Fri, 20 Dec 1996 20:35:42 GMT
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On Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:18:34 -0500, Gary R Sekinger
<sekinger+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>Thanks for the insight, I think I'm doomed. I kinda thought DJGPP
>provided some level of platform independence and provided "source code
>compatibility" with its Unix counterparts.

C does not speak about how FP works, although it does set some minimal
constants for what float/doubles must be able to represent.  The thing
that provides platform independence for floats is the IEEE spec.  You
source code should produce identical results across machines that are
truly IEEE compliant.  If you expect to exchange data files between
systems, use ASCII, not binary.

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