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Subject: Re: making double type default to 80 or 128 bytes
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On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 16:03, dave via Gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
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> Is it possible to modify the gcc compiler so that recompiling existing
> code and libraries will produce longer doubles (80 or 128 bytes)

On some processor types, yes. For most, no.