Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 20:02:31 +0200 From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Number of significand bits in long double? Message-ID: <20050804180229.GA632@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> In-Reply-To: <20050804162618.GA96657@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20050804162618.GA96657@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:26:18AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > Can someone confirm or refute that the long double type > has 53 bits in its significand on i386? Which header > file in /usr/include provides this info? The type long double has 64 mantissa bits, however we set the FPU to 53-bit precision to get double computations right. Stefan
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