[DGD] Full double precision floats?

[Raymond Jennings]

Do you know of any such platforms atm?

IEEE doubles have been around for ages.




On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Felix A. Croes <felix at dworkin.nl> wrote:

> 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
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