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Author	random832
Recipients	random832
Date	2015-12-31.20:59:50
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Message-id	<1451595590.68.0.197113034584.issue25984@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I think it would be useful for programs to be able to detect whether a system uses IEEE-754 double-precision values for the 'float' type. There is lots of detailed information about the float type in sys.float_info, but no simple "is IEEE" flag. On some C implementations, this is exposed as __STDC_IEC_559__.

I think it would be useful for programs to be able to detect whether a system uses IEEE-754 double-precision values for the 'float' type. There is lots of detailed information about the float type in sys.float_info, but no simple "is IEEE" flag. On some C implementations, this is exposed as __STDC_IEC_559__.

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