[fpc-pascal] Freepascal Floating Point Issue
Florian Klaempfl
florian at freepascal.org
Mon Aug 28 22:17:43 CEST 2017
Am 24.08.2017 um 23:45 schrieb Ched:
> And under "modern" Windows, the extended type, which is fully supported
> by the FPU, is *degraded* to double. So, I can't do high precision
> computation with fpc even if the native hardware permits such
> computations.
FP permits it too, just recompile it with
FPC_SUPPORT_X87_TYPES_ON_WIN64. But be aware: MS might disable extended
support at any time on 64 bit windows as the types are marked as deprecated.
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