At 12:29 PM 6/12/02 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:37:37AM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > At 05:30 PM 6/11/02 -0600, bbcannon wrote: > > >My initial try with "V" did not work, but I'm going to > > >keep pecking at it. If a double is represented in C with > > >32 bits... > > I'm assuming that. It may not always be true. I've been lead to > > understand that some compilers for 64bit processors consider a double > to be > > 64 bit. >I think it's never true. I've never known float to be anything but 32 bits, >and double to be anything but 64 bits on any system I've used, nearly all >of which have int and long both as 32 bits. >However, I'd not be surprised if float was 64 bits on Crays.
That just goes to show how rusty my C is... ;-) Liz
