Difference between double and long double?
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>What should be the difference between double and long double? On my compiler
>(Acorn C++ v5.06) there is no discernable differences. Also the constants in
>float.h are the same.
That's ok. Long double may not be smaller that double, but they need not be
larger. On Intel platforms, long double is the same size as double for some
compilers (such as Watcom). Many others use 10 byte floating point that is
used to represent floating point on the FPU stack - this 10 byte format is not
IEEE.
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>I would have expected long double to be used for IEEE extended double
>precision numbers, is this correct? Is my compiler non-ANSI standard for
>not supporting it?
It is non-ANSI standard if it doesn't support long double. It is not so merely
because it does not support your expectations.
Bill
