80 bit floating point emulator

[max haughton]

On Sunday, 6 February 2022 at 11:03:38 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 February 2022 at 04:30:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> It turns out we can use one for the D compiler, to support 
>> cross compilation for machines that don't have 80 bits.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Maybe just drop 80 bits floats support? They should die with 
> x87. Just move to SSE/AVX.

We already have moved on, technically. There are still some 
places using real in Phobos IIRC that should be violently culled 
because it destroys performance, but having the precision 
available isn't so bad.