Re: [avr-libc-dev] more accuracy...

[Joerg Wunsch]

As David Carr wrote:

> AVR
> float:          2476.24536132812500000000
> error:          23.75463867187500000000

Which is fairly well in line with the 32-bit float results
from the i386.

> Is there a way to have sizeof(double) == 8?

Currently not.  Volunteers are needed to hammer all this
out, in particular to establish enough library support
for this to ever become a useful option.

> Considering that the AVR is 8bit and has no hardware floating point,
> being only 12x slower than the 386 is impressive especially
> considering it runs at 1/5 the clock speed.

Yes, indeed.  I think the key point here is that the avr-libc math
libraries are carefully manually tuned.  OK, but so is the FPU
hardware implementation of the i387...

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