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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:21:01 +0200
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: un_x@hotmail.com (steve  howe)
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Subject: Re: float
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As  steve  howe wrote:

> can anyone tell me if FreeBSD will support IEEE DOUBLE FLOATS
> anytime soon?

Huh?

We do.  We don't support the complete IEEE exception vs. non-exception
(NaN, infinity etc.) handling, but the default double is 64 bits.

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