[Info-vax] Roadmap

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/3/2019 2:45 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> There are also cases where staying flat means writing a lot of code for
> a different platform.  Long doubles might be one of those cases.  If
> they stay with T_FLOAT (which I suspect they will for compatibility),

????

T-float is double.

Do you mean X-float?

> they can't necessarily just use the same software emulation they had for
> Alpha (maybe, if it was written in C, but obviously not if it was Alpha
> assembler).  Compiler switches that make optionally available the 80-bit
> long doubles more familiar to x86 users might be nice, but that would be
> front-end changes they're unlikely to have time for now.

????

x86 use 80 bit for calculations.

But x86-64 does not (I believe technically they are only deprecated in 
user mode and prohibited in kernel mode).

And VMS will only support x86-64.

Arne