From:	Thomas Knudsen <tk AT geb DOT gfy DOT ku DOT dk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	sizeof(long double)
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:18:31 +0100
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Based on the figures in float.h, I have always believed, that a long
double in djgpp corresponded to an 80 bit IEEE float. However, the
following code fragment:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void){
  printf("sizeof(long double)==%d\n", (int) sizeof(long double));
  return 0;
}

prints: sizeof(long double)==12

is this really true?

Thomas


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