On 09/27/2011 01:46 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Alas, no. On x86_64 long double is an 80-bit floating point number, just as on 32-bit x86. The size is 16 bytes because the x86_64 prefers to align large values to 8-byte boundaries. gcc works this way because the 80-bit floating point format is supported directly in hardware, unlike the 128-bit format.
I suspected that this is the case, but hoped for the better. Thanks -- Michael
