• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= (15/15) Apr 12 2005 The GDC home page says:

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:

The GDC home page says:

"The 80-bit real type is not supported on Mac OS X
  and is replaced by the 64-bit double type."


This is something of a redundancy, since the size
of the real type in D is not a fixed number but the
"largest hardware implemented floating point size"

I have suggested re-introducing "extended" as the
name of the 80-bit floating point type that the X86
processor family has, and "quadruple" for 128-bit...


Thus, the entry should read something like:

"The 80-bit extended type is not supported on Mac OS X
  and real is represented by the 64-bit double type."

But I think that Walter has removed the failing unittest
with the "%A" format now, from recent versions of DMD.

--anders