"km" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all, > > does python currently support 80 bit precision Floating Point Unit ?
Last I read, in CPython, the float type encapsulates a C double. So, does any C compiler implements doubles as 80 bit floats? Or, if it has 64 bit doubles and 80 bit long doubles, are the latter transparently substitutible for the former, so that you could change Python's float declaration and have everything work as expected? (I an not sure of either.) Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
