Re: [Haskell-cafe] 80 bit floating point data in Haskell?

Ross Mellgren wrote:

What about the built-in Float type?

Prelude Foreign.Storable> sizeOf (undefined :: Float) 4 Prelude Foreign.Storable> sizeOf (undefined :: Double) 8

While we're on the subject... I understand that certain FPUs support 80-bit precision. Is there any way to get at that? Or is this going to require FFI too?