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Extended Precision Implementations - IEEE 754 Extended Precision Formats
... standard recommends that implementations provide extended precision formats ... The standard specifies the minimum requirements for an extended format but does not specify an encoding ... The x86 and x86-64 and Itanium processors support an 80-bit "double extended" extended precision format with a 64-bit significand ...
C99 - IEEE 754 Floating Point Support
754 floating point float is defined as IEEE 754 single precision, double is defined as double precision, and long double is defined as IEEE 754 extended precision or quad precision where available (e ... Intel 80 bit double extended precision on x86 or x86-64 platforms) ... that all internal intermediate computations are performed by default at high precision (long double) where available (e.g ...

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