From tlumley at u.washington.edu  Tue Oct 18 19:44:04 2005
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:44:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] Why no .Machine$sizeof.double?
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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



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