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Alas, no. On x86_64 long double is an 80-bit floating point number, just as on 32-bit x86. The size is 16 bytes because the x86_64 prefers to align large values to 8-byte boundaries.
gcc works this way because the 80-bit floating point format is supported directly in hardware, unlike the 128-bit format.
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