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Subject: Re: 128-bit precision
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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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>>I am talking about real numbers.  Sorry for the confusion.


I doubt that GCC will support real numbers of any precision. I suspect
you are asking about floating-point formats :-)

The answer is no, gcc on linux x86 machines will not support 128-bit
precision arithmetic operations.