Re: What's the deal with C99?

[santosh]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Ioannis Vranos <ivranos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> lawrence.jones@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> I'm just reporting what Intel says in
>>>> <http://www.intel.com/support/performancetools/c/sb/cs-015003.htm>:
>>>>
>>>> The Intel(R) C++ Compilers conforms to the ANSI/ISO standard
>>>> ISO/IEC 9899:1999 for C language with one limitation:
>>>>
>>>> * long double (128-bit representations) is not supported.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps the support is mostly there but not quite complete?
>>> Perhaps C99 "upgraded" long double to larger value range than C90
>>> had it?
>> 
>> No, it didn't.
> 
> 
> Then I think their long double comment doesn't make any sense.

Obviously they are saying that 128 bit long doubles are not yet
supported. That doesn't mean that a smaller long double isn't.
Currently they seem to be using 96 bit long doubles.