Floating Point

[james klutho]

I have never seen this documented. I assume that PBDLL and PBCC
adds some floating point emulation code to the exe so that it can
run correctly on 386 and 486 machines without a FPU. I do not
see any switches as in some compilers to optimize floating
point emulation (or PFU) options.

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[Lance Edmonds]

Good question. I've asked R&D for information and I'll post what I can find out.

Personally, I've never seen Win9x installed on a 386DX or SX (it would be extremely sloooow!) but I've seen 95 on plenty of 486DX's.

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[Lance Edmonds]

Ok, it turns out that Win32 provides a built-in FPU emulator for these situations.

IOW, it is of no real concern to the PowerBASIC programmer!

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