"Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:55:46 Daniel Murphy wrote: >> "Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >> >> > long long is 128 bits on 64-bit Linux. >> >> Are you sure about this? I think we already had this discussion... > > If it isn't, then whatever that discussion was obviously didn't stick in > my > head. > > - Jonathan M Davis
long double (aka real, a much better name) is 128 bits (including padding) on some platforms/compilers, I'm pretty sure long long is 64 bits in every x86-64 memory model. Some compilers do however support 128 bit integer types on some platforms.
