On Thursday 12 February 2015 00:18:28 Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > On Wednesday 11 February 2015, Marc Mutz wrote: > > If long double was any useful (apparently it's no larger than double on > > Windows), we could use that, but as it stands, that would be pointless. > > > > > > Apropos, the usefulness of extended precision floating point happens to be > that they can represent both 64bit integers and 64bit floating point.
...except if it cannot. That would've actually made for a good requirement for a long double type: be a superset of values representable in double and long long. But that's not what the standard says :( -- Marc Mutz <[email protected]> | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company www.kdab.com || Germany +49-30-521325470 || Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-Independent Software Solutions _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
