7 Nov
2004
7 Nov
'04
5:15 p.m.
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:13:27 +0100, Thorsten Ottosen <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> wrote:
"Paul A Bristow" <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> wrote in message
I don't have a good answer to this. Do all reasonable desctop compilers actually go for IEEE 754?
No. (But the issue isn't so much whether a compiler is IEEE-754 compliant, but whether the architecture itself it.) 'float' and 'double' are usually IEEE-754 compliant, but it's very common for 'long double' not to be. There are some popular platforms where the long double format is just plain weird. --Matt