STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: "As I mentioned earlier in this thread, GCC has supported __float128 since 4.3, Clang added support within the last year, and Intel has a _Quad type. All are purported to be IEEE 754-2008 quad-precision floats. Glibc added "quadmath.h" recently (maybe in 4.6), which defines sinq() / tanq() / etc. Is that not sufficient?"
Python is compiled using Visual Studio 2008 on Windows. Portability does matter on Python. If a type is not available on *all* platforms (including some old platforms, e.g. FreeBSD 6 or Windows XP), we cannot use it by default. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11457> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
