From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: sizeof(long double)
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 12:13:01 +0100
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Thomas Knudsen wrote:
> 
> 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
You are basically right. On the other hand, variables
are aligned to 4-Byte boundaries in gcc, hence it
take 12 bytes, where the last two bytes are unused.
Other machines may require packing to 8 or 16 byte
boundaries, so things are not always the way they
seem  ;-)


-- 
Ciao
Tom

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