Re: [cc65] Re: floating point support redux

From: Ullrich von Bassewitz <uz1musoftware.de>
Date: 2010-04-27 23:18:57
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 09:41:38PM +0200, Groepaz wrote:
> every floating point format must be supported by both the target AND the host
> (the compiler), so while using the kernal float routines for cbm targets might
> sound like a good idea at first, it also means writing (and maintaining) a
> floating point implementation with the exact same properties on the host. now
> multiply that with the number of targets. its much easier to write one
> emulator that can deal with the format used on all hosts.

Correct. And: There are platforms that don't have floating point in ROM. For
these platforms a 6502 floating point library has to be written anyway. So
using ROM routines won't even save this work.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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