On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 at 17:51:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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I'm not advocating for getting *rid* of 80-bit float support,
but only to make it *optional* rather than the default, as
currently done in std.math.
T
Aren't there two issues: 1) std.math functions that cast to real
to perform calculations, 2) the compiler sometimes converts
things to real in the background when people don't want it to.
Number 1 seems straightforward to fix. Introduce new versions of
the std.math functions for float/double and the user can cast to
real if the additional accuracy is necessary.
Number 2 would require a compiler switch, I imagine.
