<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 1:27 AM Sven Barth via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
(though to be fair it does the same on 32-bit as well)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, MSVC (for some reason) universally defines "long double" as exactly an alias for regular 64-bit double, whereas GCC and Clang (more correctly IMO) define it as an 80-bit type equivalent to FPC's traditional "extended". So even on 32-bit with MSVC you have to hand-write assembly to make use of x87 FPU instructions.</div></div></div>