Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2005-05-31 14:27:01 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > But as I said on my page, this isn't much a problem since users >> > who really need *extended* precision can still set the rounding >> > precision to extended precision; this isn't portable, but extended >> > precision isn't portable anyway. >> >> What about LDBL_* from <float.h>? > > What do you mean here?
They give you access to long double in a portable manner, but if you change the rounding mode then the constants are no longer accurate. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
