third draft: add bitfields to D

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri May 24 22:21:13 UTC 2024


On 5/24/2024 4:51 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> (E.g, D's specified floating-point semantics are 
> completely insane,

I presume you are talking about doing intermediate computations as 80 bit 
floats. This was inevitable with the x86 prior to XMM. With XMM, floats and 
doubles are evaluated with XMM instructions that do 32/64 bit respectively.



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