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Floating-point Bit Patterns
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   The `g77' build will crash if an attempt is made to build it as a
cross-compiler for a target when `g77' cannot reliably determine the
bit pattern of floating-point constants for the target.  Planned
improvements for version 0.6 of `g77' will give it the capabilities it
needs to not have to crash the build but rather generate correct code
for the target.  (Currently, `g77' would generate bad code under such
circumstances if it didn't crash during the build, e.g. when compiling
a source file that does something like `EQUIVALENCE (I,R)' and `DATA
R/9.43578/'.)