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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!vnet.ibm.com
  2. From: ameline@vnet.ibm.com (Ian Ameline)
  3. Message-ID: <19920820.093930.581@almaden.ibm.com>
  4. Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 12:39:29 EDT
  5. Subject: Does Long Double Work With Math Function?
  6. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
  7. References: <1992Aug19.210132.12143@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
  8. Organization: C-Set/2 Development, IBM Canada Lab.
  9. Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
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  11.  
  12. In article <1992Aug19.210132.12143@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>,
  13. gkm@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (gary.k.mc nees) writes:
  14. >
  15. >Does the C Set/2 compiler support long double math operations?
  16. >I tried a simple power calculation which should have resulted
  17. >in an answer with an exponent of 400 and the program never
  18. >finished. The reference specifies (double) but I thought that
  19. >long doubles were supposed to be supported.
  20. >
  21. >Any help will be appriciated, Gary McNees
  22. >
  23.  
  24.    Long doubles are supported. They use the 80 bit IEEE format.
  25.  
  26. Regards,
  27. Ian.
  28.