On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 04:52:25PM +1100, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d wrote: > "Walter Bright" wrote in message news:m8haem$29hc$1...@digitalmars.com... > > >I thought it did allow painting of the form *(cast(T*)&t). > > Only for float and double, not real.
Ahhh now I remember what the problem was... there is no 80-bit integer type, so using union painting is the only way to work with reals in CTFE. Of course, this *could* be construed to be a nail in the real coffin, seeing that real is purportedly slower on modern hardware due to x87 being gradually phased out... T -- Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. -- Alan Watts
