VC8 build

[Charles Bailey]

Peter Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Charles Bailey wrote:
>> I've recently got back into assembler programming.  I used to dabble a
>> bit in ARM stuff, but now I'm interested in doing some stuff with the
>> 387 FPU instructions, principally as you can't get access to 80-bit
>> extended precision from the VC8 C compiler (as far as I can tell).
> 
> It's been a long while since I looked (probably back in DOS days with 
> Borland compilers), but I seem to recall that "long double" is the magic 
> incantation required to use 80-bit floating point.
> 

And on gcc for linux too; sadly on MS compilers we get this:

Type Name     Bytes            Other Names   Range of Values
double        8                none          1.7E +/- 308 (15 digits)
long double   same as double   none          same as double

Anyway, I've sent a patch (not to the list) for the other yasm VC8 build 
file issues which I mentioned.

Thanks,

Charles.