On Friday, 27 June 2014 at 13:50:29 UTC, Iain Buclaw via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 27 June 2014 14:24, Element 126 via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
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 ?
We only support native types in std.math. And partial support
is
saying more than what there actually is. :-)
The doubledouble type is available for PowerPC. In fact, I try to
use this for my PowerPC64 port of LDC. The partial support here
is a bit annoying but I did not find the time to implement the
missing functions myself.
It is "native" in the sense that it is a supported type by gcc
and xlc.
Regards,
Kai
