Revision as of 03:53, 19 November 2011 edit Dicklyon (talk \| contribs) Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Rollbackers 486,013 edits m moved Talk:Quadruple precision floating-point format to Talk:Quadruple-precision floating-point format: hyphenate compound used as adjective ← Previous edit		Revision as of 00:43, 16 February 2012 edit undo Vincent Lefèvre (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 5,221 edits →Hardware and software support: PowerPC Next edit →
Line 91: ::I think the anon is confusing compiler support for hardware support. Several PowerPC compilers support a quadruple precision type, but they do so by compiling to a software implementation -- PowerPC hardware only has instructions for single and double precision as far as I know. [[User:Stevenj\|— Steven G. Johnson]] ([[User talk:Stevenj\|talk]]) 22:36, 4 August 2011 (UTC) :::On PowerPC (Mac OS X and GNU/Linux) the long double C type corresponds to the double-double arithmetic (implemented in software). [[User:Vincent Lefèvre\|Vincent Lefèvre]] ([[User talk:Vincent Lefèvre\|talk]]) 00:43, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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