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- Subject: Re: Lua number type and 64-bit machines
- From: "Thomas Harning Jr." <harningt@...>
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:05:12 -0500
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Lua uses doubles on 32bit machines, shouldn't 64bit machines use long
>> doubles or even quadruple precision floats ?
>
> Do 64-bit machines suppport long doubles in hardware?
The x86_64 architecture does not support long doubles in hardware. As
for other architectures, I don't know.
--
Thomas Harning Jr.
