On 2005-05-31 09:56:31 -0700, Mike Stump wrote: > On Tuesday, May 31, 2005, at 06:43 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >No, this is not portable, since if extended precision is necessary to > >get correct results for some application, the same application run on > >PowerPC, where there is no extended precision > > ? News to me! Ok, who removed it? Speak up now, or we're going to > send the firing squad.
Well, there is no extended precision with GCC under Linux/PPC. And according to http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/PPCNumerics/PPCNumerics-14.html (found with Google), the PowerPC doesn't have hardware support for extended precision. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
