This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> writes:
> On 2005-05-31 21:16:19 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> writes:
>> > The "long double" type is required, but it is not required to be
>> > extended precision.
>>
>> But it can be.
>
> So what?
You can take advantage of it if it exists (which you can find out about
portably). But not if your compiler has crippled it.
>> > Once you change the rounding precision, this is no longer required,
>> > since you are already working with an extension.
>>
>> The use of long double is not an extension.
>
> Changing the rounding precision is. The C standard defines how you
> can change the rounding direction, but not the rounding precision.
Yes, my point.
Andreas.
--
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."