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This 80-bit format uses one bit for the sign of the significand, 15 bits for the exponent field (i.e. the same range as the 128-bit quadruple precision IEEE 754 format) and 64 bits for the significand. The exponent field is biased by 16383, meaning that 16383 has to be subtracted from the value in the exponent field to compute the actual power of 2. [20] An exponent field value of 32767 (all fifteen bits 1) is reserved so as to enable the representation of special states such as infinity and Not a Number. If the exponent field is zero, the value is a denormal number and the exponent of 2 is −16382. [21] Floating-point Indefinite, the result of invalid calculations such as square root of a negative number, logarithm of a negative number, 0/0, infinity / infinity, infinity times 0, and others when the processor has been configured to not generate exceptions for invalid operands. The sign bit is meaningless. This is a special case of a Quiet Not a Number.

long float: type to which float values are promoted for computations (and might be as small as float or as big as long double.In the following table, " s" is the value of the sign bit (0 means positive, 1 means negative), " e" is the value of the exponent field interpreted as a positive integer, and " m" is the significand interpreted as a positive binary number where the binary point is located between bits 63 and 62. The " m" field is the combination of the integer and fraction parts in the above diagram. Why they'd chose to use old SW/HW instead of modern ones needs to be evaluated on a case by case basis, but often the reason boils down to one of these three:

Intel created a series of floating-point coprocessors for the x86 called the x87. In addition to supporting IEEE single and double precision numbers, it also supported an 80-bit extended precision number. Some C compilers (e.g. clang) mapped this to the long double type in C, but others (e.g. MSVC) didn't. In contrast to the single and double-precision formats, this format does not utilize an implicit/ hidden bit. Rather, bit 63 contains the integer part of the significand and bits 62-0 hold the fractional part. Bit 63 will be 1 on all normalized numbers. There were several advantages to this design when the 8087 was being developed: It may be worth noticing that the C language standard is intentionally vague in defining the type for exactly this issue you're seeing. I would then suggest having a means of explicitly passing types other than double to functions, but say that expressions that don't explicitly force the type of a floating-point value passed to a variadic function would by default be converted to double.The x86 extended precision format is an 80-bit format first implemented in the Intel 8087 math coprocessor and is supported by all processors that are based on the x86 design that incorporate a floating-point unit (FPU). Quiet Not a Number, the sign bit is meaningless. The 8087 and 80287 treat this as a Signaling Not a Number.