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fr314159@gmail.com writes:
> On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 1:19:24 PM UTC-5, james...@verizon.net wrote:
>> No, it does not. A particular implementation of C may recognize that type
>
> My programming universe is GNU/Linux where __float128 is used.

There are still GNU/Linux systems where __float128 doesn't exist.  As I
recall, gcc supports it only on 64-bit targets.

> Are there actually C programmers who don't use GNU/Linux?
>
> (No, I am not being facetious.)

Yes, there most certainly are.

C is defined by the ISO C standard.  The latest public draft is
    http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
You should get a copy.

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