15 Feb
2001
15 Feb
'01
5:40 p.m.
John Foust skrev:
I'm sure they didn't want to scare the bejesus
out of the first
wet-behind-the-ears CS grad who attempted to use "float" in their
C program and got a link error. So where might floats be? In graphics
code, particularly sloppy graphics code. But these days the OS includes
OpenGL and DirectX, too, which have floats galore. In user-friendly
code that showed percentages for completion or resources consumed.
And then there's scads of apps like "Calc.exe", the calculator app.
Floats don't require any floating-point unit. Scads of CALC.EXEs have been
written before the dawn of the FPU.
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