On 27 June 2014 14:24, Element 126 via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 06/27/2014 03:04 PM, dennis luehring wrote: >> >> Am 27.06.2014 14:20, schrieb Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d: >>> >>> On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 11:10 +0000, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d wrote: >>> [ ] >>>> >>>> I understand why the current situation exists. In 2000 x87 was >>>> the standard and the 80bit precision came for free. >>> >>> >>> Real programmers have been using 128-bit floating point for decades. All >>> this namby-pamby 80-bit stuff is just an aberration and should never >>> have happened. >> >> >> what consumer hardware and compiler supports 128-bit floating points? >> > > I noticed that std.math mentions partial support for big endian non-IEEE > doubledouble. I first thought that it was a software implemetation like the > QD library [1][2][3], but I could not find how to use it on x86_64. > It looks like it is only available for the PowerPC architecture. > Does anyone know about it ? >
We only support native types in std.math. And partial support is saying more than what there actually is. :-)
