reddit.com: first Chapter of TDPL available for free

Jeremie Pelletier jeremiep at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 09:57:04 PDT 2009


Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> KennyTM~ wrote:
> > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/975ng/diving_into_the_d_programming_language_tdpl/ 
> >>
> >>
> >> (Don't tell anyone, but I plan to rewrite it.)
> >>
> >> Andrei
> > 
> > What's a "so-called IEEE 754 double-extended 79-bit format"? :p
> 
> Heck, I didn't know until I googled for it!
> 
> BTW folks, please please vote the reddit link up. It's a simple and 
> effective way to increase exposure to D and grow the community.
> 
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/975ng/diving_into_the_d_programming_language_tdpl/
> 
> 
> Andrei

And I always thought it was double-extended 80-bit. The IEEE standard actually specifies >= 79 bits and Intel implements it as 80bits.

Well you learn something new everyday!



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