Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> I am not sure what this is supposed to say at all.  Nothing says that "
> double " cannot be a 128 bit IEEE 754 float.  In fact, certain platforms do
> currently offer 128 bit IEEE 754 floats as "long double".

  UltraSparc is an example of this. (Their problem is that long doubles
are considerably slower than doubles. Curiously doubles are often
faster than integers, believe it or not. Sparcs are odd. :) )

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