From: drupp AT cs DOT washington DOT edu (Douglas Rupp)
Message-Id: <199607281656.JAA16800@june.cs.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Long double support
To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 09:56:20 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: dj AT delorie DOT com, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <9607281607.AA11318@clio.rice.edu> from "Charles Sandmann" at Jul 28, 96 11:07:55 am
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> 
> > Beware the TurboC FAQ: "What does it mean when it says `floating point
> > formats not linked?'".
> > 
> > I'd rather have a bloated printf than another FAQ.
> 
> I think a "hello world" program which is over 50K will generate a lot more FAQs
> than looking for support for long-long and long-double.  At some point even
> people who read the FAQ will ask "why - it's not that way on other compilers".
> If you count mailing/news hits on the two subjects over the last few years ...
> don't make a perceived problem worse.
> 
> As a matter of fact - I think the linking in DJGPP.ENV environment code 
> by a typical user app should probably be OFF by default (I inserted the null
> version into the libc which I use for everything except rebuilding 
> distribution apps).
> 

Maybe if you bloated up the C programs, we GNATers would hear less whining
about how big Ada programs are. :-)