[Development] JSON 64 bit int

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Thursday 12 February 2015, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Thursday 12 February 2015 00:18:28 Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 February 2015, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > > If long double was any useful (apparently it's no larger than double on
> > > Windows), we could use that, but as it stands, that would be pointless.
> > 
> > Apropos, the usefulness of extended precision floating point happens to
> > be that they can represent both 64bit integers and 64bit floating point.
> 
> ...except if it cannot. That would've actually made for a good requirement
> for a long double type: be a superset of values representable in double
> and long long.
> 
> But that's not what the standard says :(

I was referring to x87's 80bit floating point.

`Allan