size of double in Cray C

[Henry Spencer]

In article <8055 at boring.cwi.nl> dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>... I said something else:  Cray's choice predates C; you know,
>you will find Seymour Cray's choice in such relicts as the CDC 7600.

The choice being discussed here is not the size of floating point on the
machine, but the mapping from C's sizes to machine sizes.  There's nothing
wrong with making "float" and "double" the same size, and this is clearly
what should have been done.
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