__float128 Q?

[Steve Kargl]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:51:24AM -0700, Bud Davis wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have seen this traffic, but I am too out of touch to understand what this really means...
> 
> Does it mean you can now do things like this:
> 
>              real*16 A
> 
> And really have a 128 bit floating point variable ?  And math with it is reasonably fast ?
> 
> Or is it something a little more esoteric ?
> 

"reasonably fast" may be in the eye of the user. :-)

FX has been working on a software implementation of REAL(16).
It appears to work on linux, but has some problems on other
targets due to missing symbols in libgcc_s.so.1. 

-- 
Steve