Enable extflonums in a MSVC build by relying on a MinGW-built DLL,
"longdouble.dll". The DLL is loaded on startup. If the DLL isn't
available, then `extflonum-available?' reports #f.
Instead of setting the floating-point mode globally to extended
precision, the mode is changed only just before (and restored right
after) extflonum arithmetic operations.
An extflonum is like a flonum, but with 80-bit precision and
not a number in the sense of `number?': only operations such as
`extfl+' work on extflonums, and only on platforms where extflonums
can be implemented by hardware without interefering with flonums
(i.e., on platforms where SSE instructions are used for
double-precision floats).
[Patch provided by Michael Filonenko and revised by Matthew.]
The compiler tracks information about bindings that are known to
hold extflonums, but the JIT does not yet exploit this information
to unbox them (except as intermediate results).