Yo Fred! On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Fred Wright via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> > Huh. If "long double" isn't 16 bytes, we're foing to have a
> > problem.
>
> There's no guarantee that long double differs from double. Anything
> that depends on it to do so is nonportable.
>
> That can't be the issue here, anyway, since overflow couldn't have
> happened after converting to floating-point.
Yes, but the loss of precision will be more than a second, not good for
NTP.
RGDS
GARY
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