June 2004 - Posts

• Are long doubles 64 or 80 bit?

  Dmitriy Zaslavskiy has asked a very good question: “How come VC8 doesn't distinguish long double and double? I thought VC7 did. Have to go back and check.” The short answer is: The types are distinct, but the sizes are the same. The long answer Read More... Posted Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:40 AM by ericflee | 6 Comments

• Overloading the semantics of the register keyword.

  I often think about what I would change in C++ were I given carte blanche to update the language. One thing in particular has been on mind in recent months—the register keyword. The register keyword was originally intended to allow C programmers Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:47 PM by ericflee | 2 Comments