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Re: 128-bit precision
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: herbert at isis dot visi dot com, herbert at shell dot visi dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:56:45 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: 128-bit precision
>>I am talking about real numbers. Sorry for the confusion.
I doubt that GCC will support real numbers of any precision. I suspect
you are asking about floating-point formats :-)
The answer is no, gcc on linux x86 machines will not support 128-bit
precision arithmetic operations.