what is the use of "long double?" arguably, people who need numbers that large would be using GMP or PARI.
On 12/23/05,
Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:well the problem is not really on the microsoft OS but it is in the *math*Actually, the problem is Microsoft OS, and in particular the dll
library of that c++ compiler... there are other c++ compilers that supported long double (80, 96 or 128 bit precision) in their math library and there are stand alone math libraries supported long double for windows also...
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll", which is the Microsoft Visual C++
runtime library. This library provides support like the combined (libc+libm)
of Linux. All compilers for Windows, as a general rule, use this library,
and so all compilers suffer from the "long long printf()" problem, and the
lack of true "long double" implementation, distinct from "double".
This is quite deplorable, and I wish Microsoft could do something about it.
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