From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18277 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2009 12:55:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 18267 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jul 2009 12:55:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,CYGWIN_SUBJECT,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from imr-da03.mx.aol.com (HELO imr-da03.mx.aol.com) (205.188.105.145) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:55:49 +0000 Received: from imo-da01.mx.aol.com (imo-da01.mx.aol.com [205.188.169.199]) by imr-da03.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n6QCtjts016553 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:55:45 -0400 Received: from N8TM@aol.com by imo-da01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v40_r1.5.) id s.d4b.4b615c3f (37074) for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:55:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (99-13-231-72.lightspeed.snjsca.sbcglobal.net [99.13.231.72]) by cia-db05.mx.aol.com (v124.15) with ESMTP id MAILCIADB058-90d24a6c524d2c2; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:55:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4A6C524D.3030004@aol.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:33:00 -0000 From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince@computer.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <24665806.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <24665806.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 99.13.231.72 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-07/txt/msg00916.txt.bz2 leena21 wrote: > I would appriciaite if some can tell me which floating point format is used > in Cygwin environment ? > > If I understand your question, this depends on the your selection on the compiler command line. gcc defaults to "387" (80387) format. Normally, if you care, you would set something like -march=pentium-m, and, if you wish, -mfpmath=sse . All the usual data types are present (float, double, long double) and the storage is little-endian, same as any other compiler for the same CPU. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple