On Thursday 12 February 2015, Marc Mutz wrote: > 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 :(
I was referring to x87's 80bit floating point. `Allan _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
