On 30/01/12 18:06, Marco Leise wrote:
Am 30.01.2012, 03:59 Uhr, schrieb H. S. Teoh <[email protected]>:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 05:48:40PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/29/2012 2:26 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>long double is 128-bit.
Sort of. It's 80 bits of useful data with 48 bits of unused padding.
Really?! Ugh. Hopefully D handles it better?
T
From Wikipedia:
"On the x86 architecture, most compilers implement long double as the
80-bit extended precision type supported by that hardware (sometimes
stored as 12 or 16 bytes to maintain data structure alignment)."
That's all there is to know I think.
Not quite all. An 80-bit double, padded with zeros to 128 bits, is
binary compatible with a quadruple real.
(Not much use in practice, as far as I know).
