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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 64 bit longs?
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.093757.12857@kithrup.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 91 09:37:57 GMT
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In article <1991Jan14.234609.6103@uvm.edu> wollman@emily.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
>On a related note, does anyone know of a compiler that (assuming IEEE
>types) supports a `long double' using the IEEE Temporary Real representation?

MSC 5.0 and later support the declaration 'long double'; 5.0 treates it as a
double, 6.0 uses the 80x87 temp-real stuff (80 bits).  Don't know if that is
IEEE format or not, though.

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