Message-Id: <9607291934.AA17075@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Long double support 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jul 1996 05:21:49 PDT."
             <199607281221 DOT IAA04141 AT delorie DOT com> 
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 12:34:16 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>


How useful is long double to most applications?

double provides such high precision, 15k of bloat to support something
which is:
	not ANSI
	not used (by my estimate 99.999% of the time)
I would say if it is needed have a special libldbl.a which has
to be used to handle long doubles.

I'm of the feeling to ignore it...the application writer should write
special routines to handle long doubles and other non-ansi features.

marty