--- a/Float.st	Sat Jan 08 17:12:03 1994 +0100
+++ b/Float.st	Sat Jan 08 17:18:40 1994 +0100
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 COPYRIGHT (c) 1988 by Claus Gittinger
               All Rights Reserved
 
-$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/Float.st,v 1.6 1993-12-12 20:52:40 claus Exp $
+$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/Float.st,v 1.7 1994-01-08 16:18:40 claus Exp $
 
 notice, that Floats are defined as Byte-array to prevent garbage collector
 from going into the value ... otherwise I needed a special case in many places.
@@ -781,6 +781,7 @@
 
     f := self basicNew.
     bytes := stream next:8.
+
     "kludge: assumes IEEE format"
     UninterpretedBytes isBigEndian ifTrue:[
         "swap the bytes"
@@ -817,9 +818,12 @@
 
     char buffer[64];
     REGISTER char *cp;
-#ifdef THISCONTEXT_IN_REGISTER
+    /*
+     * actually only needed on sparc: since thisContext is
+     * in a global register, which gets destroyed by printf,
+     * manually save it here - very stupid ...
+     */
     OBJ sav = __thisContext;
-#endif
 
 #ifdef SYSV
     sprintf(buffer, "%.6lg", _floatVal(self));
@@ -827,9 +831,7 @@
     sprintf(buffer, "%.6G", _floatVal(self));
 #endif
 
-#ifdef THISCONTEXT_IN_REGISTER
     __thisContext = sav;
-#endif
     /* 
      * kludge to make integral float f prints as "f.0" (not as "f" as printf does)
      * (i.e. look if string contains '.' or 'e' and append '.0' if not)
@@ -855,23 +857,25 @@
 printfPrintString:formatString
     "non-portable: return a printed representation of the receiver
      as specified by formatString, which is defined by printf.
-     If you use this, be aware, that specifying doubles differes on
+     If you use this, be aware, that specifying doubles differs on
      systems; on SYSV machines you have to give something like %lf, 
      while on BSD systems the format string has to be %F.
-     Also, the resulting string must not be longer than 255 bytes -
+     Also, the resulting string may not be longer than 255 bytes -
      since thats the (static) size of the buffer."
 
 %{  /* STACK: 400 */
     char buffer[256];
 
     if (_isString(formatString)) {
-#ifdef THISCONTEXT_IN_REGISTER
+        /*
+         * actually only needed on sparc: since thisContext is
+         * in a global register, which gets destroyed by printf,
+         * manually save it here - very stupid ...
+         */
         OBJ sav = __thisContext;
-#endif
+
         sprintf(buffer, _stringVal(formatString), _floatVal(self));
-#ifdef THISCONTEXT_IN_REGISTER
         __thisContext = sav;
-#endif
         RETURN ( _MKSTRING(buffer COMMA_SND) );
     }
 %}