On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 4:59 AM, <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > It's bad enough that perl5 and perl6 round to 15 decimal digits of > precision, but at least perl5's printf will give me 17 decimal digits when > I ask it to (and I think perl6 should do the same): >
I am wondering if youve talked to any Intel FP engineers. 17 decimal digits sounds like you expect full internal 80-bit precision even if it's not in an internal register. Good luck. (gcc does have ways of doing this on sufficiently recent processors. msvc does NOT. So, you've just demanded a Windows vs. Unix difference be enshrined in the language?) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
