is real an 80-bit type or not?

[Bill Baxter]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
> In my case it's on my pet peeves list because of the "it's 10 for me".
> So you have hardcoded assertions that real.sizeof > double.sizeof...
> 
> Kinda like the "if (Win32) else //linux ;", it's making assumptions.
> They are valid for DMD, but break for GDC - and make porting harder ?
> 
> But most of all I dislike the "imaginary real" and the "complex real".
> (see http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/18061.html)
> 
> Since it's not going to change anyway, I'm OK with coping with it...
> But still think the 16-bit and 128-bit types would have been nice ?

I see.  So really it's nothing particular to D.  More with D users, and 
even then, users making assumptions about platforms is far from unique 
to D.  Glad to know it's nothing seriously wrong with D's 80-bit math on 
platforms that have it.

--bb