Changeset 6eb6ec4 in Lumiera

Timestamp:

2026-09-20T23:05:53Z (3 weeks ago)

Author:

Ichthyostega <prg@…>

Branches:

dev/play

Children:

549216d

Parents:

303edcb

Message:

Library: better short-hand name for long double

As with all those C++ base types, unfortunately they are giving you
only rough size guarantees. For Lumiera, I defined short hand names
some time ago, notably because the explicit long X and short X qualifiers
do not work with constructor syntax for direct conversions.

But I choose the name f128 at that time -- which might raise ill-guided
expectations, since the long double is not that long on relevant linux 64bit
platforms; it can just hold 64bit of mantissa at least however.

As replacement, I'll use lflp now, because it has also 4 letters,
looks somewhat weird (and thus catches attention) and points into the
right direction. I considered lfloat as alternative, but that looks
too much like float, visually...

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