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diff --git a/AK/FloatingPoint.h b/AK/FloatingPoint.h
index 209fbadc29..30b156d17b 100644
--- a/AK/FloatingPoint.h
+++ b/AK/FloatingPoint.h
@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ template<typename T>
union FloatExtractor;
#if ARCH(I386) || ARCH(X86_64) || ARCH(AARCH64)
-// This assumes long double is 80 bits, which is true with GCC on Intel platforms
+// FIXME: There is no straightforward way, I can think of, to check
+// in compile time that long double is really an 80-bit IEEE574 floating point number.
+static_assert(__LDBL_MAX__ == 1.189731495357231765e4932L);
+
template<>
union FloatExtractor<long double> {
static constexpr int mantissa_bits = 64;