On Thursday, 11 May 2017 at 11:31:58 UTC, Nikolay wrote:
On Thursday, 11 May 2017 at 11:10:50 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Well, if you don't like what's available and NetBSD doesn't
provide them... up to you to decide where that leads.
In any case it was not my decision. LDC does not use x87 for
math functions on other OS's.
LDC does use x87 reals on x86, the only exception I'm aware of
being Windows (MSVC targets, MinGW would use x87), as the MS C
runtimes don't support x87 at all (and they also define a 64-bit
`long double` type, so the choice was pretty obvious).
I don't have a strong opinion on whether the NetBSD x86 real
should be 80 bits with a lot of tweaked tests or 64 bits. The
latter is surely the simpler approach though.
