Floating Point-How Important to Unix?

[John Holden]

> After some thought I came to the conclusion that the percentage of data 
> words miscounted as floating pt. ops (FPOs) is negligible.

	I think that you will find that the compiler and assember always
generate relative addressing for subroutines and jumps. Any call to an
earlier address will generate a negative number, hence lots of 017xxxx
numbers in the text image.


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