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Floating point operations

Floating point operations

The C compiler uses the IEEE standard single-precision, double-precision and extended-precision data types, operations, and conversions. Library functions are provided for further IEEE support.

You will probably not need any special functions to use floating point operations in your programs. If you do, however, you can find information about floating point support in this chapter.


NOTE: For more information on how the C compilation system supports the IEEE standard see ``IEEE requirements''.

This chapter contains sections on the following topics:


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