Hello, Dmitry!
Saturday, December 07, 2002, 12:08:04 PM, you wrote:

D> Quadravox/imagecraft, etc. are _planing_ to add 64 bits floats support to
D> their compilers.
D> With gcc this can be done _right away_ (say, I'll upload fp double support 
D> within an hour). But...
D> I doubt this is necessary for the controller with 2K ram only. 64 bit doubles
D> will eat lots of ram and will be slow.
D> Then also, all FP library (functions) must be rewritten.
D> I doubt I can do this 'flagged'.
D> Lets vote. Who wants doubles 64 bits ieee854 ?
D> Who does not?
  Here is a questions:
  (1) Do you want do some ``marketing'' for msp430-gcc? Do you want to
      see this product (yes, free one), in use by ``corporations'' or
      you understand, that msp430-gcc is for freaks (nothing personal,
      I'm freak too, in eyes of many ``corportations''.
  (2) How long does it takes? Is it one night for you or month of work
      on FP library instead any really useful code optimization,
      bugfixing and rest with friends? :)
  (3) Does it break current FP realization (not so precision, but more
      useful)?

  I know, it is not `vote' :) I think, it is answers, which you should
  answer to yourself to take decision.
  
               Lev Serebryakov
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