Re: [fpc-devel] size of extended

2009-10-31 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 31 Oct 2009, at 01:14, peter green wrote: 1: is there a table anywhere of the size of extended on different platforms? No. 2: the mentions of m68k (which was dropped a while back afaict) and very little else in the manual makes me suspect the manual in general may be rather outdated.

[fpc-devel] size of extended

2009-10-30 Thread peter green
in the freepascal "programmers guide" it says "For all other processors which support floating point operations, the extended type is a nickname for the type which supports the most precision". A few points about this 1: is there a table anywhere of the size of extended on different platforms?