[fpc-pascal] Freepascal Floating Point Issue

[Ralf Quint]

On 8/22/2017 5:16 PM, Paul Nance wrote:
> Turbo Pascal also had a BCD unit.
Well, no, there was no unit, rather a version of Turbo Pascal 3.0x had a
version that natively used BCD math for "reals" instead of the 6byte
REAL type, just as there was a x87 version that used hardware x87 FP
(IEEE754) floats instead of software emulated ones. That was at a time
when the x87 processors where an addon to the basic CPU (8087 for the
8086/8088/80188, 80187 for the 808186, 80287 for 80286, 80387 for the
80386).

Ralf


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