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Floating-point Bit Patterns

The g77 build will crash if an attempt is made to build it as a cross-compiler for a target when g77 cannot reliably determine the bit pattern of floating-point constants for the target. Planned improvements for version 0.6 of g77 will give it the capabilities it needs to not have to crash the build but rather generate correct code for the target. (Currently, g77 would generate bad code under such circumstances if it didn't crash during the build, e.g. when compiling a source file that does something like `EQUIVALENCE (I,R)' and `DATA R/9.43578/'.)


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