[Ecls-list] ECL's view of floats

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

2006/8/12, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org>:
>
> I'm working on a patch to convert ECL to the single/double-float style,
> and also to add a third immediate short-float type.


The first part is ok with me, but I don´t understand that with the immediate
short-float type. What machine data-type will it correspond to? If it is if
the same size and accuracy as the other types, I do not see the need to
enlarge the core image with a redundant type.

Juanjo


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