On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2010-11-26 16:10:39 +0100, Marc Glisse wrote:long double would be binary80.Not even that. In binary{k}, k is required to be either 16 or a multiple of 32.
That's the "would" part ;-)
Moreover these interchange formats use the implicit bit, which is not the case of Intel's double-extended format.
Ah, right, I forgot about that, thanks for the correction. -- Marc Glisse
