[DGD] Full double precision floats?

[Felix A. Croes]

Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since we're dealing with floating point formats that have the same exponent
> range, I presume that silent interconversion (with an appropriate warning
> about mantissa truncation on going back to 6-byte floats) will suffice.
>
> My hope was to convert dgd to use full double precision floats on a
> permanent basis.  Besides increased precision, I figured it would simplify
> the floating point code.

Depending on IEEE 64 bit floats will render DGD inoperable on platforms
that don't have them, so the code has to be either optional or in a
separate branch.

Regards,
Felix Croes