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From: | Paul Shirley <Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Fixed point math |
Date: | Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:26:24 +0100 |
Organization: | DrinkSoft |
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In article <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 94 DOT 960625013434 DOT 2111A-100000 AT zippy>, Samuel Vincent <svincent AT cs DOT sonoma DOT edu> writes >I am curious. Is there any reason long long ints are not used for fixed >point math? It would provide 64 bits of precision.. Making a 32.32 >possible... Because djgpp generates calls to lib functions for them, as I discovered while trying to cajole gcc into doing a */ sequence via a 64 bit intermediate result :() -- Paul Shirley
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