80 bit floating point emulator
kinke
noone at nowhere.com
Sun Feb 6 13:36:37 UTC 2022
On Sunday, 6 February 2022 at 13:29:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
> But WHY would you compute compile time in only 80-bit?
For `log(0.1L)` at CTFE, the compiler must when targeting a
platform with x87 real.
From https://dlang.org/spec/float.html#fp_const_folding:
> 1. Regardless of the type of the operands, floating-point
> constant folding is done in real or greater precision. It is
> always done following IEEE-754 rules and round-to-nearest is
> used.
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