Phobos colour module?

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7 January 2015 at 16:07, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 04:52:25PM +1100, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> "Walter Bright"  wrote in message news:m8haem$29hc$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> >I thought it did allow painting of the form *(cast(T*)&t).
>>
>> Only for float and double, not real.
>
> Ahhh now I remember what the problem was... there is no 80-bit integer
> type, so using union painting is the only way to work with reals in
> CTFE.
>
> Of course, this *could* be construed to be a nail in the real coffin,
> seeing that real is purportedly slower on modern hardware due to x87
> being gradually phased out...

At very least, I would *really* like a compiler flag to disable real,
or alias real=double to match other architectures.
I have never had a use for real, it can only lead to problems for me,
especially portability problems.