Re: [B2-devel] Fixes for the generic FPU emulation core

[Lauri P. <lpe...@ni...>]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:48:03 +0200, Gwenolé wrote:

>BTW, I am surprised MSVC++ doesn't provide its own long double type
>(80-bit long). Really nothing like __float80, __quadruple ?

Not that I know of. There were 80 bits long doubles in the old
16-bit version of the compiler, but for some reason this support
was dropped.

I just grepped all the compiler include files with "float80" and
"quadruple" -- no [relevant] hits. But it's always possible that
I'm missing something.

>I think that an implementation claiming IEEE-754 compliance would have
>adequate float and double type representations. long doubles could also
>be 128-bit long.

Yes ... strictly speaking it's compliant, but adequate? Not for
our purposes at least :) 

Lauri