On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Dmitry Yemanov <firebi...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 01.11.2012 11:43, marius adrian popa wrote:
>
> > And the quad is gone
>
> Not really. What has gone is the quad specific arithmetics.
> The data type itself remains and I doubt it can be wiped out completely,
> as AFAIK sometimes it's used for blob IDs.
>
> BTW, another data type that seems asking for a cleanup is D_FLOAT. I
> cannot find it being used by any today's platforms.
>
>
D_FLOAT was a DEC specific implementation of double precision floating
point. At one point I knew the difference between it and IEEE float, but
age
and alcohol are helping.
Cheers,
Ann
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