dr john stockton

JRS: In article <2ud72sF29b90hU1@uni-berlin.de>, dated Thu, 28 Oct 2004
23:36:26, seen in news:comp.lang.pascal.borland, Matt Claessen
<nospam@tiscali.nl> posted :


If it is necessary to use floating-point both in a main program and in
an interrupt service routine, it can be useful to use 6-byte software
floats in the ISR, in order not to be concerned about saving and
restoring the state of the hardware FPU.

One should note that some Pascal operations use non-reentrant helper
functions.

More via <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/pascal.htm>.

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