From: sime AT fly DOT cc DOT fer DOT hr (S. Mikecin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: sizeof(long double)==12
Date: 18 Sep 1996 11:26:44 GMT
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DJGPP has three floating-point (FP) data types: float (4 bytes), double (8
bytes) and long double (12 bytes). Since x86 FPU supports ONLY
32-bit,64-bit and 80-bit floating-point numbers (and also 64-bit integer
numbers), I see no reason why long double is of size 12, and not 10 bytes!
It has nothing to do with alignment because it is also 12, even when I use
#pragma pack(1). Is there any explanation?

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