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A comment on John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better. Parent comment

Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by enriquto on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @04:00AM (#20389790)
yet it is still used for arithmetic with "long double"
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Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by josefx on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:58AM (#20399479)
Wouldn't that resovle the issue? long double contains the whole 80 bit state, not much space for undefined bits left.
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Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by enriquto on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:31AM (#20400165)
Yes, it resolves the issue in practice. However, the issue is an implementation detail of the compiler, not of the floating point format itself.
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