Yes, that is correct. What I explained is that it does not matter much since 80 bit precision is legacy anyway.
It
does matter much, because FPC
will use 80-bit precision on platforms that support it. So if you compile a program for e.g.
i386 or
x86_64 excluding
Win64 then the compiler
will make use of
Extended for floating point code and thus it needs to be handled correctly and consistently which a compiler compiled for
x86_64-win64 or any platform not supporting 80-bit floating point (e.g.
aarch64)
does not.