-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Mathias Gaunard Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 6:52 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Any interest in bitstream class?
On 29/06/13 14:06, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
The proposed typedef float128_t provides a standardized way to specify quadruple-precision (Quadruple-precision floatingpoint format) in C++."
I wish all compilers actually provided 128-bit floating-point. I suspect that even if this is accepted, a lot of implementations will not have that typedefs simply because they won't have float128 support.
In that case, using Boost.Multiprecision will probably be an option (if probably slower than a hardware or hand-coded or compiler solution). But I doubt this is the main use case for bitstreaming? Paul