Ciao Gerlando, --- Gerlando Falauto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> > --- Gerlando Falauto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The C99 standard doesn't guarantee you'll have 32 bit wide floats. It > doesn't > > even guarantee the floats will be 'base 2'. But fortunately, kaffe hasn't > been > > ported to such a beast yet, AFAIK ;) > > Well but we have the guarantee that *java floats* are 32-bit wide right? > So shouldn't we use that, again, for consistency? > Shouldn't all the immediates be 'jint', 'jlong', whatever, for that > matter? sounds reasonable to me. I'd like to hear what Tim & Helmer think about it. > > But anyway, if just using floats works for you, please port a patch > > and let others evaluate it. That's much easier than trying to > > interpret the C standard ;) > > That contradicts a lot of good software engineering principles, but I got > to admit, that's the way it is. ;) In my opinion working code beats proposals. I think that's how linux was developed, and it was quite successful so far ;) cheers, dalibor topic __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
