C equivalent for the D "float" type

[Jeremie Pelletier]

TSalm wrote:
>>> What is the C equivalent for the D "float" type ?
>>
>> float and double is double.
>>
>> in c, real support is compiler dependant, it may or may not
>> be available.
>>
> Thanks !

Most of the time you'll see D's real type to be declared as 'long 
double' in C/C++, some compilers such as VC++ understand it to be 
syntactically different from 'double' but implement it using the same 
semantics (ie, 64bits).