Re: [avr-gcc-list] linear regression on 128L

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:22, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> choice   sizeof(float)  sizeof(double)  sizeof(long double)
> #1       4              4               8
> #2       4              8               8
>
> Choice #2 complies with the C standard, but breaks compatibility with
> all existing code, and is likely to cause even more bloat (due to the
> internal default promotion of floating point expressions to type
> double).
>
> But again, it requires a volunteer to handle all this...

Surely if double == 4 bytes and float == 4 bytes then double is worthless...

IMO double == 8 bytes is fine and people that need to use it can pay for the 
bloat it will incur.

Is there some hidden cost for double == 8 that doesn't affect people using 
doubles?

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