On 06/27/2014 03:04 PM, dennis luehring wrote:
Am 27.06.2014 14:20, schrieb Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d:
On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 11:10 +0000, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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I understand why the current situation exists. In 2000 x87 was
the standard and the 80bit precision came for free.
Real programmers have been using 128-bit floating point for decades. All
this namby-pamby 80-bit stuff is just an aberration and should never
have happened.
what consumer hardware and compiler supports 128-bit floating points?
I noticed that std.math mentions partial support for big endian non-IEEE
doubledouble. I first thought that it was a software implemetation like
the QD library [1][2][3], but I could not find how to use it on x86_64.
It looks like it is only available for the PowerPC architecture.
Does anyone know about it ?
[1] http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/
[2]
http://web.mit.edu/tabbott/Public/quaddouble-debian/qd-2.3.4-old/docs/qd.pdf
[3] www.davidhbailey.com/dhbpapers/quad-double.pdf
