Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:37:48 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: DAntrushin@mail.ru Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Subject: Re: Number of significand bits in long double? Message-ID: <20050805.113748.60551134.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <42F36675.2090602@mail.ru> References: <20050804150405.GA95916@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <42F36675.2090602@mail.ru>
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Denis Antrushin <DAntrushin@mail.ru> writes:
: Steve Kargl wrote:
: > Can someone confirm or refute that the working number
: > of bits in the significand of long double type is 53
: > on i386?
: Yes, this is what IEEE 754 requires.
: (See http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html,
: section 'The IEEE Standard')
float and double are defined by the IEEE Standard. long double isn't
required to be anything, by the IEEE standard.
Warner
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