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<h3 class="section">6.11 Additional Floating Types</h3>
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<p>As an extension, GNU C supports additional floating
types, <code>__float80</code> and <code>__float128</code> to support 80-bit
(<code>XFmode</code>) and 128-bit (<code>TFmode</code>) floating types.
Support for additional types includes the arithmetic operators:
add, subtract, multiply, divide; unary arithmetic operators;
relational operators; equality operators; and conversions to and from
integer and other floating types. Use a suffix &lsquo;<samp>w</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>W</samp>&rsquo;
in a literal constant of type <code>__float80</code> and &lsquo;<samp>q</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>Q</samp>&rsquo;
for <code>_float128</code>. You can declare complex types using the
corresponding internal complex type, <code>XCmode</code> for <code>__float80</code>
type and <code>TCmode</code> for <code>__float128</code> type:
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<pre class="smallexample">typedef _Complex float __attribute__((mode(TC))) _Complex128;
typedef _Complex float __attribute__((mode(XC))) _Complex80;
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<p>Not all targets support additional floating-point types. <code>__float80</code>
and <code>__float128</code> types are supported on i386, x86_64 and IA-64 targets.
The <code>__float128</code> type is supported on hppa HP-UX targets.
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