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From: mschulter AT mach1 DOT mpu DOT com ()
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: sizeof(long double)
Date: 23 Aug 1996 23:18:58 GMT
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This is just a note that the following program indicates that the
length of a long double type in djgpp 2 is 12:

/* Test size of long double */
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
  long double VarSize = sizeof(VarSize);
  printf("The size of a long double in djgpp is %Lg.\n", VarSize);
  return(0);
}

The displayed result is indeed 12..

BTW, I wouldn't consider this extra capability a bad thing; from this
result, I would guess that djgpp may simply be a bit ahead of its time
<grin>, sort of like with the long long option for 64-bit integers.

Margo Schulter