On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 03:22 AM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > The solution is just to call it 'longdouble', which clearly > > communicates 'this does some quirky thing that depends on your C > > compiler and architecture'. > > > > > > Well, I don't know. If someone is unfamiliar with floats I would expect > > they would post a complaint about bugs if a file of longdouble type > > written on a 32 bit system couldn't be read on a 64 bit system. It might > > be better to somehow combine both the ieee type and the storage > alignment. > > np.float80_96 > np.float80_128 > Heh, my thoughts too. Chuck
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