cent and ucent?

[Marco Leise]

Am 30.01.2012, 03:59 Uhr, schrieb H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>:

> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 05:48:40PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/29/2012 2:26 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> >long double is 128-bit.
>>
>> Sort of. It's 80 bits of useful data with 48 bits of unused padding.
>
> Really?! Ugh. Hopefully D handles it better?
>
>
> T

 From Wikipedia:

"On the x86 architecture, most compilers implement long double as the  
80-bit extended precision type supported by that hardware (sometimes  
stored as 12 or 16 bytes to maintain data structure alignment)."

That's all there is to know I think.