Thanks - I'll take a look to see if it's usable. Otherwise, any float128 type would probably be called "Quadruple" if we're going by the naming convention used in Object Pascal and Visual Basic, for example.
Gareth On Wed 11/07/18 17:54 , "Sven Barth" pascaldra...@googlemail.com sent: > J. Gareth Moreton schrieb am Mi., 11. Juli 2018, 15:13: > float128 does sound like a good solution > overall. I'm not sure where to begin with > that though, or even what to call it for > Pascal, since "float128" is distinctly C- > like! It could be something to put on my > list of possible research projects! > > The RTL has the ufloat128 unit which would then be used by the compiler. > Regards, Sven > _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel