Re: 7.5 beta version

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:22:18AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> > But in the case of x86 (among others) that's the in-register
> > representation, no?  IIRC they are stored to memory as 64-bit doubles at
> > best.
> 
> You also have "long double"s on some compilers which could be 80 bit.
Actually, they're a supported feature in both C99 and C++ IIRC.  But I
still suspect they're not *actually* 80 bits, at least not in memory.


> We gave up trying to make C++ dlls on windows because of ABI/name
> mangling problems, never tried it again though.
> 
> The compilers from Microsoft and Borland atleast aren't
> compatible.

But that shows up as link errors, not at runtime, right?


Jeroen