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Re: Implementing real*16 in Fortran
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On Sunday 03 August 2003 20:54, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:17:19PM +0200, Erik Schnetter wrote:
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> > I want to implement real*16 in Fortran. For that I seem to need
> > two things:
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> > (1) For run time libraries, I need a corresponding C type. I think
> > the best thing would be to use long double for that, but it has to
> > have a sizeof of 16. On i386, the option -m128bit-long-double does
> > just this. Is there a way to declare a type that does not need this
> > option? I
>
> I don't think IA-32/IA-64/amd64 TFmode (ieee_extended_128)
> is what you're looking for. That's still the same thing as XFmode,
> but padded to 16 bytes.
> Doesn't Fortran mandate IEEE quad format (TFmode on sparc and a
> couple of other platforms), ie. 1 bit sign, 15 bits exponent, 112+1
> bits of mantissa?
Fortunately, Fortran does not mandate any kind of precision. I want to
choose this format because it is implemented in hardware on i386
processors. I think that the alternative would require a special code
and/or out-of-line routines for floating point operations. I have no
experience with such libraries, and attaching them to gcc is probably
more difficult than using the 10-byte format after extending it to 16
bytes.
- -erik
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