64bits doubles are not supported.
I have no plans to make this support.
only 32bits IEEE754 floats are (somehow) suported.
~d
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 00:17, Mark Stokes wrote:
> What happened to the double data type that was discussed earlier. I
> have found a need for it and was wondering. Here's my dilemma:
> I am using 8-digit 7-seg display to represent things on the screen.
> This means that if I want to represent a floating point number that is
> less than one like 0.9999999 I would have a number that is out of the
> bounds of the "float" data type. For example:
>
> float floatvar;
>
> floatvar = 0.99999999
>
> Then floatvar ends up == 1 which is not helping me. I need it to ==
> .99999999 because internally the controller can't deal w/ numbers (in
> this particular variable) that are >= 1.0.
> However, if I take the same code and put on Borland, and use "double's",
> then I get the intended result (floatvar ends up == to 0.99999999).
> {footnote: if I use float in Borland the same thing happens.}
>
> Any ideas on when "double" will be available? What about a new release
> of the win32 executables? Perhaps I'll get the gnu tree working so that
> I can make win32 releases, but right now I don't have the time to mess
> w/ that.
>
> Thanks
> -Mark
>
>
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