[Cfp-interest 2371] Re: standard name for binary128 ?

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Thu Feb 10 00:25:37 PST 2022


On 2022-02-10 07:50:21 +0100, Paul Zimmermann wrote:
> in n2596.pdf I see no standard name for IEEE 754 binary128
> (quadruple precision). Currently one has to use _Float128 with gcc,
> and _Quad with the Intel compiler. A standard name would be welcome.

_Float128, and more generally _Float<N>, are the names from
ISO/IEC TS 18661-3 and N2601. What happened to its C2x integration?

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