• 9il (2/2) Jun 22 2020 Should it always be 53? or it can be 64, when?
• kinke (5/7) Jun 23 2020 For LDC, it's 53 (and .sizeof == 8) for MSVC targets, but 64

9il <ilyayaroshenko gmail.com> writes:

Should it always be 53? or it can be 64, when?

Thank you

kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 02:56:36 UTC, 9il wrote:
 Should it always be 53? or it can be 64, when?

 Thank you

For LDC, it's 53 (and .sizeof == 8) for MSVC targets, but 64 
(x87) for MinGW, reflecting the accompanying C runtime's `long 
double`. [And IIRC, MS disallows any x87 usage in kernel code.]
For DMD, it's always 64, it only has x87 reals.