Re: [boost] Any interest in bitstream class?

Subject: Re: [boost] Any interest in bitstream class?
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-06-29 13:52:05

On 29/06/13 14:06, Paul A. Bristow wrote:

> The proposed typedef float128_t provides a standardized way to specify quadruple-precision
> (Quadruple-precision floatingpoint format) in C++."

I wish all compilers actually provided 128-bit floating-point.
I suspect that even if this is accepted, a lot of implementations will 
not have that typedefs simply because they won't have float128 support.