add phobos module std.halffloat ?
Rob T
rob at ucora.com
Wed Dec 19 22:06:04 PST 2012
On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 20:44:19 UTC, Robert Jacques
wrote:
>
> See std.numeric.CustomFloat. It supports quarter, half, single,
> double and 80-bit. The wikipedia article on the floating point
> (IEEE 754) includes a Quad type but not a double-quad or 96-bit
> type. 96-bit Should be possible, as it's just 80-bits with
> padding. Quad and double quad would be tougher to do, do to the
> lack of a quad integer type or a 112-bit bit shift operator.
I did not see anything in the reference docs to indicate
consistency across platform. Do these produce constant results
cross-platform? Actually do any of the basic floating point types
do this (Real excluded)?
--rt
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