From: Matt Austern (austern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-07 12:15:22
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:13:27 +0100, Thorsten Ottosen <nesotto_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> "Paul A Bristow" <pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> I don't have a good answer to this. Do all reasonable desctop compilers
> actually
> go for IEEE 754?
No. (But the issue isn't so much whether a compiler is IEEE-754
compliant, but whether the architecture itself it.) 'float' and
'double' are usually IEEE-754 compliant, but it's very common for
'long double' not to be. There are some popular platforms where the
long double format is just plain weird.
--Matt