On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:53:25AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Garrett Goebel wrote:
Many thanks for the links (searching for this stuff is a pain, there are
too many results ;-)
Anyway:
- are there platforms with quad precision floats out there?
sparc Solaris and Irix both have 16
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 17:12, Garrett Goebel wrote:
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
- 8/12 byte float issues are still the same - are these
formats really portable, or should we try to store
ASCII equivalents?
No?
? Because my knowledge here approaches zero, so I'm just aping
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 04:56, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:53:25AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Garrett Goebel wrote:
Many thanks for the links (searching for this stuff is a pain, there are
too many results ;-)
Anyway:
- are there platforms with quad precision
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Anyway:
- are there platforms with quad precision floats out there?
Several documents refer to quad precision hardware, but I can't find direct
references to any.
- or should 12 byte long doubles get converted to 8 byte IEEE doubles.
Perhaps the following quote from
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
- 8/12 byte float issues are still the same - are these
formats really portable, or should we try to store
ASCII equivalents?
No?
? Because my knowledge here approaches zero, so I'm just aping information
back at you from google searches and scanning documents.
Garrett Goebel wrote:
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
- 8/12 byte float issues are still the same - are these
formats really portable, or should we try to store
ASCII equivalents?
No?
? Because my knowledge here approaches zero, so I'm just aping
information back at you from google
