On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:53:25AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Garrett Goebel wrote:
> 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? sparc Solaris and Irix both have 16 byte doubles. I think that they are both done in software, and I don't think either is to any IEEE standard. > - or should 12 byte long doubles get converted to 8 byte IEEE doubles. This doesn't feel like a good idea. It may be the only practical solution, but I doesn't mean that I have to like it. Nicholas Clark
