Re: [cc65] Floating point support

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From: Piotr Fusik (P.Fusik_at_elka.pw.edu.pl)
Date: 2002-05-22 10:35:52 

Hi!

On 22 May 2002, Christian Groessler wrote:

> I think (esp. from space reasons), even if there is a reference IEEE
> implementation available, there should be an option to use the ROM
> based float routines. Another reason to have this, is that then the
> results of calculations are the same as when done in BASIC on the
> machine.
>
IMHO not worth trouble. Different machines have different float
representations (e.g. Atari is 6-byte BCD), different functions (e.g. in
Atari sin/cos are in Atari BASIC, not the OS; so you have to check if
there's BASIC, which version is it etc.). Or do you suggest taking Atari /
C64 / ... FP routines and putting them in CC65 lib? This violates the
copyright, I think.

Piotr

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