FloatingPoint in D

BCS ao at pathlink.com
Tue Mar 13 15:45:36 PDT 2007


Reply to Andreas,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Can any D implementation be assumed to use IEEE-768? In other words:
>> can I safely build floats and double from bits and expect it to work
>> on an arbitrary compiler including ones that don't exits yet?
>> 
>> I guess a corollary is, are there any platforms that D is likely to
>> be used on that have a hardware FP system *other* than IEEE-768?
>> 
> You're sure it ain't IEEE 754 ??
> 

In fact I"m shure it /is/ IEEE 754, but enough about how bad my memory is <g>.




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