Autah-cs.192 net.bugs.4bsd utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau Tue Feb 16 04:45:40 1982 fp constants and the C compiler To give the orginal author of the pcc parent of the Vax compiler his due (Steve Johnson), here is the very explicit comment in the offending code which prints out floating constants in decimal: /* on the target machine, write it out in octal! */ So it was this way only for cross-compiling, and whoever ported it to the vax never changed it once bootstrapped. (If you want to fix it, it's fincode in pcc/local.c.) Jay Lepreau ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.