[Numpy-discussion] long double woes on win32

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was just going to look at that; it's nice to have the ticket mailing list
> working again. Is there an easy way to force the SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE to 8 so
> I can test this on linux?

Changing this line in numpy¥core¥setup.py:

-                  ('SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE', 'long double'),
+                  ('SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE', 'double'),

is what I did to get the result on windows. But it only "works"
because I know the C runtime really has long double of 8 bytes. On
platforms where it is not true, it is likely to break things.

cheers,

David