[Rd] Why no .Machine$sizeof.double?

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Tue Oct 18 19:44:04 CEST 2005


On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Earl F. Glynn wrote:

> Whis is there a .Machine$sizeof.longdouble but no .Machine$sizeof.double?
>

sizeof(double) is always 8 and sizeof(int) is always 4, because R requires 
the IEEE/IEC standard arithmetic types.  R will not compile with any other 
sizes.

 	-thomas



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