From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22558 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2002 14:54:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 22547 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2002 14:54:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO moshier.moshier.net) (65.96.130.103) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Apr 2002 14:54:36 -0000 Received: from www.moshier.net (moshier.ne.client2.attbi.com [65.96.130.103]) by moshier.moshier.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id g35EsS218423; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:54:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:00:00 -0000 From: Stephen L Moshier To: Zack Weinberg cc: Subject: Java floating-point mess Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00194.txt.bz2 > The Java front end has a number of places that assume not only that > the host and target floating point formats are identical, but that > both are IEEE. I've tried to get rid of them, but run afoul of its > not being possible to link real.o into gcjh -- it wants to drag in > most of the back end. Originally, real.o did not drag in anything, as it had to fit into an independent test harness. That will have to happen again, in order to test C99 features. Maybe this would be an excuse to do some of that work, or at least find out why you are having trouble. >From the IEEE fanatics though, I got the impression that Java was supposed to work the same on all computers so you would have to provide a run-time emulator if your computer was not IEEE. Is that the specification or was that just political propaganda?