Subject: Re: PR 18803 - printf(3) does not handle long double
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/12/2005 22:26:30
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:59:07PM +0100, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
> What I am not sure about is the performance issue. Throwing everything
> into a long double (included floats and doubles) might be overkill,
There are archs where long double is 128 bit and emulated in software,
while double (64 bit) is done in hardware.
Martin