Re: 128 bit math routines by Tim
Tim
Mon Apr 18 23:51:48 CDT 2005
TOB <TOB> wrote:
>
>Does any one know if the New Visual Studio 2005 will support QUAD precision
>math routines?
>Where sizeof(long double)==16 bytes
Quad precision floating point? Not a chance. No chip that Visual Studio
supports has such a thing in hardware (IEEE 754 does not even define such a
format), and no one is about to undertake a floating point simulation at
this point.
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc