[Cfp-interest 2373] Re: standard name for binary128 ?

[Jim Thomas]

> On Feb 10, 2022, at 12:25 AM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> 
> 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?

WG 14 approved the annex in N2601 for inclusion in C23. It’s integration in the C23 draft is in progress. 

- Jim Thomas

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