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Subject: Re: long doubles?
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> If long doubles are 8 bytes (and they are on MacOSX, so that's a good
> sign), then shouldn't the LDBL_* constants be the same as the DBL*
> constants from float.h?  (they are on MacOSX)

  FYI, Drew commited the fix for this. Long doubles are now 8 bytes,
the same as OSX and NetBSD.

later,

Peter.