REPOST: Quad precision floating point on SPARC

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From: keith
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 01:51

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Sorry, my last post has the wrong e-mail address.  This is a repost.

The assembler manual for the SUN SPARC 1 gives instructions for single, 
double and quad precision floating point operations, suggesting 
all 3 are implemented in hardware.  How does one access quad precision
using gcc or g++?  I tried usng type "long double" but it just gave me double 
precision.  

Could I some how define a class library using g++ which
would allow me to access quad precision relatively efficiently?  
Is there one available?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Keith S Cover
Physics, UBC
keith@msmri.med.ubc.ca

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