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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: struct padding question |
| Date | 2017-03-23 12:21 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <lnlgrvajeb.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink) |
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
[...]
> If C had specified that all computations on double promote to "long double"
> [which might or might not be longer than double], all computations on float
> promote to "long float" [whose precision could be anywhere between
> that of "float" and "long double"], and all "normal" floating-point values
> passed to variadic functions either promote to the same implementation-
> defined type or to a type defined in the prototype, it would have been much
> easier to write floating-point math code that works cleanly and efficiently
> on many different implementations.
Are you aware of the types float_t and double_t, both defined in
<math.h>, and the macro FLT_EVAL_METHOD, defined in <float.h>?
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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Re: struct padding question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-01 11:43 -0700
Re: struct padding question Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-01 13:46 -0500
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Re: struct padding question Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-01 16:40 -0500
Re: struct padding question Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-01 15:24 -0700
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Re: struct padding question scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-23 17:19 +0000
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