64 bit longs?

Sean Eric Fagan sef at kithrup.COM
Fri Jan 18 20:37:57 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jan14.234609.6103 at uvm.edu> wollman at emily.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
>On a related note, does anyone know of a compiler that (assuming IEEE
>types) supports a `long double' using the IEEE Temporary Real representation?

MSC 5.0 and later support the declaration 'long double'; 5.0 treates it as a
double, 6.0 uses the 80x87 temp-real stuff (80 bits).  Don't know if that is
IEEE format or not, though.

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