[Coco] CMOC C-like compiler now supports float under Color Basic

[Mathieu Chouinard]

purple?

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:43 PM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> Ah, what color to paint the bikeshed? :-)
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 11:48:06AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>
>> As there is no other 40-bit float format that I know of, and as the other
>> MBF formats (32 and 64 bits) have probably never been used with the CoCo and
>> quite rarely since QuickBasic 4.0, I think it is quite safe to just name it
>> float40 and not mbf40.
>>
>>
>> Le 2017-08-16 à 10:51:00, John W. Linville a écrit :
>>
>> > This is a really good recommendation. It aligns with what I had in
>> > mind for my work with the bcc09 compiler (which I have mostly put on
>> > hold while CMOC develops).
>> >
>> > I would propose a type name like "mbf40", since the Color BASIC ROMs
>> > are using the Microsoft Binary Format:
>> >
>> >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Binary_Format
>> >
>> > Just my $0.02...
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 09:44:40AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I'd recommend reserving the keyword "float" for 32-bit floats and "double"
>> > > for 64-bit floats as on other compilers & computers, and come up with
>> > > another name such as "float40" or whatever for 40-bit float. This would be
>> > > just in case you add support for 32 or 64-bit floats one day.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Le 2017-08-12 à 21:29:00, Pierre Sarrazin a écrit :
>> > >
>> > > > Hi folks,
>> > > > > I have just published version 0.1.40 of CMOC, my C-like
>> > > cross-compiler
>> > > > for the CoCo's Disk Basic environment.
>> > > > > This version adds support for the float type, i.e.,
>> > > floating-point
>> > > > arithmetic, when targeting the Color Basic environment. (The utility
>> > > > routines invoked by the compiler call several Color Basic routines.)
>> > > > > I have rewritten my FuncPlot demo to make it use the float type.
>> > > This
>> > > > demo lets the user type in a math function (like sin(x)/x) and plots
>> > > > it in a PMODE 4 screen.
>> > > > > As the float support is brand new, users should expect bugs.
>> > > Reports
>> > > > of such bugs should be sent to me.
>> > > > > CMOC and FuncPlot are available at the CMOC Home Page:
>> > > > >    http://sarrazip.com/dev/cmoc.html
>> > > > > -- > Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip @ sarrazip . com>
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