Always false float comparisons

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/17/2016 7:08 AM, Wyatt wrote:
> On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 12:37:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> 7. 80 bit reals are there and they work. The support is mature, and is rarely
>> worked on, i.e. it does not consume resources.
>>
> This may not be true for too much longer-- both Intel and AMD are slowly phasing
> the x86 FPU out.  I think Intel already announced a server chip that omits it
> entirely, though I can't find the corroborating link.


Consider that clang and g++ support 80 bit long doubles. D is hardly unique. 
It's VC++ that does not.