Darius Davis <Dar### [at] acmorg> wrote:
: (or find
: and use a more precise floating point type - which would require a
: re-design of the CPU...)

  In a SparcStation sizeof(long double) is 16 (ie. 128 bits). Should that
be enough?-)
  It's funny that in a 32-bit machine like Sparc, the long double is 128 bits
long, while in a 64-bit Alpha the long double is "only" 64 bits long (in
PC's it's 80 bits long).

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