From: Anthony Busigin <abusigin@nitek.com>
To: Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Size of Float
Date: 2000/09/27
Date: 2000-09-28T04:07:14+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39D2C182.B1CCE75D@nitek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39D1F845.90993667@acm.org
Marin David Condic wrote:
> ... I'm using the GNAT cmpiler on a PC platform and this supports a
> built-in type called Long_Long_Float which is 96 bits. Whereas the GNAT
> compiler on an Alpha/VMS platform will only support 64 bits. The maximum
> size is usually dictated by the underlying hardware.
Long_Long_Float on Intel chips is 80 bits - not 96 bits.
Anthony Busigin
abusigin@nitek.com
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-26 0:00 Size of Float Daniel Allex
2000-09-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Anthony Busigin [this message]
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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