By "short double" I simply meant the 64 bit double without the extended
precision.
Wikipedia has a "long double" article, and is quite good in showing the
diversity
of interpretations.
I've not spent much time looking at the standards since the 80s, except to note
the move to make the extended
John,
it's sort of the other way around: because neither the implementation, format
nor precision of "long double" are defined by the C standard (it's not even
required to be based on IEEE 754/IEC 60559 at all), it is essentially left to
the compilers+runtimes to do whatever they choose, making
