Den 2019-08-26 kl. 18:35, skrev Paul Koning:
Yes, of course. I have tested my ideas about this already, to verify that it might work (using pcc, since I can do native development with it without waiting forever to recompile things... :-)On Aug 26, 2019, at 10:40 AM, Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:...Do you mean F for float, G for double, H for long double? If that can work, it sounds fine.I think it can :-) Will come back more on this later.You'd end up having to make a new VAX variant in GCC, one that uses IEEE float instead of normal float. Possibly that can be done with a switch (-mieee comes to mind). Then anything that uses float would have to be rebuilt that way, libraries, gdb, and so on.
I think the biggest problem might be those "#ifdef vax" to select floating point format that exists everywhere... :-)
-- R