[omniORB] CORBA::LongDouble missing under Windows

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 29 July, p.klotz at icoserve.com wrote:

> It seems that CORBA::LongDouble support is missing in omniORB 4.0.1 under
> Windows.

[...]
> All compilers I use (MSVC6, MSVC7, MSVC7.1) support long double.

No they don't. They have a type named long double, but it's the same
size (64 bits) as double, and is therefore not suitable for
CORBA::LongDouble, which must be at least 80 bits. It is intentional
that LongDouble is not supported on Windows.

See this page:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_CRT_Long_Double.asp

Cheers,

Duncan.

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