[Mono-list] Decimal

Miguel de Icaza miguel@ximian.com
13 Feb 2002 17:10:14 -0500


On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 07:01, Serge wrote:
> In mono/metadata/decimal.c there is the following sequence:
>   #ifndef _M_IX86
>   #error this platform is not supported
> that in turn is conditioned by _MSC_VER so it doesn't affects gcc builds.
> 
> This prevents this code from compiling with Microsoft EVT compilers
> (for ARM/MIPS/SuperH).
> Is this code really Pentium-specific?

I would think that this code is more endian-specif more than Pentium
specific. 

My suggestion is to remove the define, run the test suite, and fix
things as progress is made.

Miguel