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> This will come in handy if you do not have a floating point unit. Also for > speed in some cases. > > To be generic as possible it might be good to have this. The goal isn't really maximum generality, but support for languages that people care about. Currently that's mostly C and C++, with a smattering of features for some others. But features almost never get added

...ituation where you do not want rounding errors. x86 and ppc sound like Intel and Power PC specific. Of course once introduced some one must maintain it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20130910/8cff2269/attachment.html>

Many thanks for getting back. This will come in handy if you do not have a floating point unit. Also for speed in some cases. To be generic as possible it might be good to have this. BTW, in the doc I was reading there was not mention about Quad size numbers, decimal numbers and extended precision numbers. http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#type-system -------------- next part -------------- An