Let's kill 80bit real at CTFE

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9 September 2016 at 21:50, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In short 80bit real are a real pain to support cross-platform.
> emulating them in software is prohibitively slow, and more importantly hard
> to get right.
> 64bit floating-point numbers are supported on more architectures and are
> much better supported.
> They are also trivial to use at ctfe.
> I vote for killing the 80bit handling at constant folding.
>
> Destroy!

I just want CTFE '^^'. Please, can we have that?
It's impossible to CTFE any non-linear function. It's ridiculous, I
constantly want to generate a curve at compile time!