Garrett Goebel wrote:
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>
> - 8/12 byte float issues are still the same - are these
> formats really portable, or should we try to store
> ASCII equivalents?
No?
? Because my knowledge here approaches zero, so I'm just aping information back at you from google searches and scanning documents.
There are 3 standard binary IEEE 754 derived formats:
Single Precision: 4 bytes
Double Precision: 8 bytes
Quadruple Precision: 16 bytes
Many thanks for the links (searching for this stuff is a pain, there are too many results ;-)
Anyway:
- are there platforms with quad precision floats out there?
- or should 12 byte long doubles get converted to 8 byte IEEE doubles.
leo
