On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 10:38, Steven Johnson wrote: > I think that compiler also had "extended" as a reserved word (as a > 96-bit floating point type, to match Motorola hardware of the time). I worked on an early version of the MPW compiler (when the work was outsourced from Apple). There was indeed an "extended" datatype, but it was an 80bit type.
Apple required its use to hold intermediate results (a = 3.0*f+4.0) got evaluated with 80 bit temporaries and then converted back to double. This had the nifty side effect that a compiler which conformed to Apple's requirements failed ANSI-C's requirements (which required 64 bit temporaries). _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
