From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: binary to float
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:34:55 +0000
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Hello.

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
> > > Also, one other problem might arise when
> > > unsigned long is 64bit (i.e. Alpha, which uses IEEE floating point).
> >
> > I don't have access to an Alpha to check.  Anybody?

sizeof(long) = sizeof(long long) = 64 bits on an Alpha. If the question
was about IEEE FP, then I have no idea.

HTH

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