In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Jun 12 17:09:42 CDT 2019


On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:49 AM Phil Budne via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Have you looked at http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/ ?
> Which says:
>
>     "All C programs can also be compiled with old-style Kernighan and
>     Ritchie C. However, inasmuch as I now have access to only one such
>     old compiler, with more than 35 others supporting 1989 Standard C,
>     I no longer attempt to retain K&R compatibility in new code.
>
> If you run into trouble, perhaps Nelson has older versions stashed away?
>

Can't you just run unprotoize on it?

Warner


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