How many bytes in a real ?

Mon Aug 24 22:28:22 PDT 2015

On 25-Aug-2015 01:29, Guillaume Chatelet wrote:
> On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 22:08:03 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote:
>> On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 21:58:48 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>>> On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 21:55:40 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote:
>>>> On linux x86_64 : real.sizeof == 16 but it looks like only the first
>>>> the first 10 bytes are used (ie. 80bits)
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to know the real size of a real ?
>>>
>>> http://dlang.org/type.html
>>>     largest FP size implemented in hardwareImplementation Note: 80
>>> bits for x86 CPUs or double size, whichever is larger
>>
>> Yep I found this, I'd like to know this information at compile time.
>
> I actually found another way(1) but if someone knows how to get this
> information at compile time I'm still interested. Thx !
>
> 1. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4952

real.sizeof ?

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