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Re: [semi OT] - Lack of long double implementation in VS

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Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:
> On 2011-10-23, Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> wrote:
> > Greetings to all!
> >
> > I will begin with a humble apology for posting such "impure" article, but 
> > I was wandering - shouldn't data types be defined by architecture, and not 
> > by compiler? I trust the answer is yes, but having such "by design" flaw 
> > by Microsoft just escapes me.
> 
> Note that the Microsoft toolchain is free (as in beer). 
> 
> They have no incentive for improving it because they pretty much wiped out the
> non-free, non-open-source competitors, and probably don't care about earning a
> bigger slice of zero.
> 
> > gives '8', while gcc returns '16' (as expected).
> 
> If you think that GCC has better numeric support, then use it.
> 
> You can use gcc for compiling Windows programs, such that they
> do not depend on any special run-time libraries or any Unix-like
> environment: www.mingw.org.

It's nearly a decade since I touched a windows machine, but I seem 
to remember that the "portable" code I was writing, and compiling
using mingw, suffered from an inability to understand some of the 
printf type specifiers (almost certainly in the long long direction).
when run on windows. Ugly macro mess ensued.

Phil
-- 
Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity
-- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), Unix Co-Creator

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[semi OT] - Lack of long double implementation in VS Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2011-10-23 20:23 +0000
  Re: [semi OT] - Lack of long double implementation in VS Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-23 14:33 -0700
  Re: [semi OT] - Lack of long double implementation in VS Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-23 18:19 -0400
    Re: [semi OT] - Lack of long double implementation in VS Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-23 22:30 -0500
      Re: - Lack of long double implementation in VS "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-24 10:15 -0700
        Re: - Lack of long double implementation in VS jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-24 21:37 +0200
          Re: - Lack of long double implementation in VS "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-27 01:58 -0700
            Re: - Lack of long double implementation in VS André Gillibert <MetaEntropy.removeThis@gmail.com> - 2011-10-27 16:28 +0200
              Re: - Lack of long double implementation in VS jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-27 19:02 +0200
  Re: [semi OT] - Lack of long double implementation in VS Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-24 04:15 +0000
    Re: [semi OT] - Lack of long double implementation in VS Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-23 23:14 -0700
    Re: [semi OT] - Lack of long double implementation in VS Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-27 00:03 +0300
      Re: [semi OT] - Lack of long double implementation in VS Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-26 14:51 -0700
  Re: - Lack of long double implementation in VS Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-24 00:15 -0700

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