mixed type operations in Octave

[David Bateman]

soren at hauberg.org wrote:
> Quoting Jaroslav Hajek <highegg at gmail.com>:
>> 7. pretend that there always exists a real type wide enough to hold
>> all 64-bit integers, and use the semantics "convert both operands to
>> wide real, do OP, convert to intXX". On systems where this type really
>> exists (like the 80-bit long double on x86) it could be implemented
>> directly; otherwise, it would need software emulation (painfully slow
>> and laborious).
>
> Just out of curiosity, but would it be possible to have a long_double 
> type in Octave, and would such a type solve the difficulties? Having a 
> long_double type might be nice to have anyway.
>
> Søren
>
>

Then we definitely want to clean up Array<T> before doing that, as this 
is basically the same change as I went through adding teh single 
precision type.

D.

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