Re: ideas

Mike Castle (mcastle@umr.edu)
Thu, 9 May 1996 18:27:31 -0500 (CDT)

Amazingly enough Nick Holloway said:
> The area where gawk falls down badly is on machines with no FPU. The
> emulation of floating point operations causes "make depend" to crawl.

?????

Why is FP necessary to do a make depend?

mrc

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