On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Pierre Haessig > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 23/02/2012 17:28, Charles R Harris a écrit : > >> That's correct. They are both extended precision (80 bits), but > >> aligned on 32bit/64bit boundaries respectively. Sun provides a true > >> quad precision, also called float128, while on PPC long double is an > >> odd combination of two doubles. > > This is insane ! ;-) > > I don't know if it's insane, but it is certainly very confusing, as > this thread the previous one show. > > The question is, what would be less confusing? > One approach would be to never alias longdouble as float###. Especially float128 seems to imply that it's the IEEE standard binary128 float, which it is on some platforms, but not on most. Cheers, Mark > > Best, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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