Re: [C--] C-- 2.0 Grammar questions

Norman Ramsey <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:21:26 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.c--
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 > I'm encountering snippets in the test*.c-- files which do not seem to be
 > part of the grammar or I've misinterpreted the grammar. Can anyone
 > enlighten me? -1- target
 >     byteorder little
 >     float "ieee754";  <-- ?

You've found an important omission in the manual.
In order to deal with legacy machines that don't support IEEE floating
point (hello, VAX), we decided to use one set of names for floating
point operators but to use the 'target float' directive to determine
their semantics.  This point should be made in the manual and isn't.

 > -2-
 > export bits32 z; <-- optional type?

Deprecated legacy feature.


N
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