From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files in wrong subdirs of emacs/lisp? Date: 22 May 2003 12:03:11 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030520130413.8A2E.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> Reply-To: dak@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053603371 18299 80.91.224.249 (22 May 2003 11:36:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 22 13:36:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IoMd-0004k0-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 13:36:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19IoXs-0003S1-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 13:47:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IoFF-0005Bx-2h for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:28:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IoEt-0005As-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IoEN-00050R-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.82]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19InrD-0006VG-17; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19Inr6-00087c-05; Thu, 22 May 2003 13:03:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (520018396234-0001@[217.80.157.181]) by fwd05.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19Inr3-1DH03UC; Thu, 22 May 2003 13:03:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4MA3Ee4030115; Thu, 22 May 2003 12:03:54 +0200 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h4MA3BBU030111; Thu, 22 May 2003 12:03:11 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net Original-cc: bob@rattlesnake.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14085 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14085 Richard Stallman writes: > My understanding is that some of the currently popular small > devices do not support floating point. I do not know for sure, > but if true, then potentially, millions of people could use such > an Emacs. > > Nowadays GCC provides emulated floating point even if the machine > does not support it. But on embedded devices one might not particularly cherish the program space taken up by floating point emulation routines that you might never need. And on some of those small devices, gcc might not be available. I don't know whether this is relevant compared to the size and availability of Emacs overall, but it might be something to keep in mind. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum