Floating Point-How Important to Unix?

[Greg Lehey]

On Mon,  6 April 1998 at 20:42:54 -0400, Ed G. wrote:
> Curious about how heavily uv7 relies on floating point?
>
> I was.  I wrote a little program to count the occurences of op code
> '17' (the prefix for all PDP-11 floating point op codes) in Unix
> executables.  It would seem from my results that Unix relies rather
> heavily on floating point.
>
> Are my results in error?

How did you recognize the instructions words?  Just because it's in
the text segment doesn't mean it's instructions.

Greg

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