Message143867
"As I mentioned earlier in this thread, GCC has supported __float128 since 4.3, Clang added support within the last year, and Intel has a _Quad type. All are purported to be IEEE 754-2008 quad-precision floats. Glibc added "quadmath.h" recently (maybe in 4.6), which defines sinq() / tanq() / etc. Is that not sufficient?"
Python is compiled using Visual Studio 2008 on Windows. Portability does matter on Python. If a type is not available on *all* platforms (including some old platforms, e.g. FreeBSD 6 or Windows XP), we cannot use it by default. |
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2011-09-11 14:24:47 | vstinner | set | recipients:
+ vstinner, loewis, jcea, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, lars.gustaebel, larry, nadeem.vawda, Arfrever, r.david.murray, skrah, Alexander.Belopolsky, rosslagerwall, khenriksson |
2011-09-11 14:24:47 | vstinner | set | messageid: <1315751087.77.0.228046849364.issue11457@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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