-nofloat flag => should we destroy it?
Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 9 23:57:58 PDT 2014
"Adam Sakareassen via Digitalmars-d" wrote in message
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> No float is probably important for OS kernel and device driver developers.
>
> The kernel of an operating system will usually not save the floating point
> registers during a context switch (to the kernel). For this reason its
> important the compiler can guarantee never to use floating point numbers
> or the registers.
>
> Removing such a flag may prevent the compiler being used to write things
> like Linux device drivers. I know this is usually done in C, but there
> might be an OS in D one day.
DMD will likely never be used for that anyway, and I seriously
doubt -nofloat works correctly these days.
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