Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:33:35 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Number of significand bits in long double? Message-ID: <20050805.113335.27815012.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20050804150405.GA95916@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20050804150405.GA95916@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
: Can someone confirm or refute that the working number
: of bits in the significand of long double type is 53
: on i386?
The number of bits is 53. However, you can get more bits by adding a
fpsetprec(FP_PE) at the start of the programs. Otherwise, you get
FP_PD by default. Once you do that, things seem to basically work,
but I've not run paranoia.c to make sure.
Warner
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