From: "Alexander Usov" <a.s.usov@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml with long double
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:07:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a12d7e0611060407m3fe3be1fkdf4d36f7e018f833@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454F1A37.2000604@univ-savoie.fr>
On 11/6/06, Christophe Raffalli <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone tried to patch OCaml to use long double (128 bits on intel/gcc) instead of double (64
> bits on intel gcc) ?
In reality they are not 128 bits, but just 80 bits long. The rest is
just to improve memory alignment.
I am not very authoritative to talk about patching ocaml, but judging
from the amount
of internal optimizations for handling of unboxed floating-point
numbers, changing it will be quite difficult.
--
Best regards,
Alexander.
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