[Numpy-discussion] float96 on windows32 is float64?

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Ilan Schnell <ischnell at enthought.com> wrote:
> I just did a quick test across all supported EPD platforms:
> win-64: float96 No, float128 No
> win-32: float96 No, float128 No
> osx-64: float96 No, float128 Yes
> osx-32: float96 No, float128 Yes
> rh3-64: float96 No, float128 Yes
> rh3-32: float96 Yes, float128 No
> rh5-64: float96 No, float128 Yes
> rh5-32: float96 Yes, float128 No
> sol-64: float96 No, float128 Yes
> sol-32: float96 Yes, float128 No


numpy 1.5.1 MingW, on python 2.6 win32 has float96, float128 no
numpy 1.6.1 Gohlke (MKL I think) on python 3.2 win64   no float96, no float128

Josef

>
> I have no explanation for this, but I'm guessing David C. has.
> I'll look more into this tomorrow.
>
> - Ilan
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Ilan Schnell <ischnell at enthought.com> wrote:
>>> To be more precise.  On both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
>>> machines I don't see.float96 as well as np.float128
>>
>> Do you have any idea why I am seeing float96 and you are not?  I'm on
>> XP with the current sourceforge 1.6.1 exe installer with python.org
>> 2.7 (and same for python.org 2.6 and numpy 1.5.1).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matthew
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