Re: Moving VAX into 21 century :-)

[Paul Koning <paulkoning%comcast.net@localhost>]

> On Aug 26, 2019, at 10:40 AM, Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:
> 
>>> ...
>> Do you mean F for float, G for double, H for long double? If that can
>> work, it sounds fine.
>> 
> I think it can :-)  Will come back more on this later.

You'd end up having to make a new VAX variant in GCC, one that uses IEEE float instead of normal float.  Possibly that can be done with a switch (-mieee comes to mind).  Then anything that uses float would have to be rebuilt that way, libraries, gdb, and so on.

	paul