On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 04:20:49PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > If we do implement double-double support, I think KIND=15 would be better > than KIND=17, it is true that double-double has for certain numbers much > higher precision than IEEE quad, but the precision depends on the numbers > and most of the time is smaller, the range is always smaller. And > the PRECISION/RANGE intrinsic numbers are also both smaller.
Yes. We want KIND=16 to mean the IEEE QP format whenever we can, right? And another 16-byte format would more logically be kind=17 then, considering we want to have two 2-byte kinds at least, one of them IEEE as well. Other practical considerations might well supersede elegance of course. Segher
