So I've been looking at using REAL_TYPE to represent decimal floating
point values internally (to implement the C extensions for decimal
floating point.) I believe David and yourself had some discussions on
this some short time back.
Anyway, I've now had a chance to play with this a bit, but no
Jon Grimm wrote:
So I've been looking at using REAL_TYPE to represent decimal floating
point values internally (to implement the C extensions for decimal
floating point.) I believe David and yourself had some discussions on
this some short time back.
FWIW, I'd rather see you stick with REAL_TYPE
Mark Mitchell wrote:
What I would hope would work would be modifying real.c to (a) directly
suport the decimal format for storage, and (b) update the emulation of
floating-point operations to work correctly on the decimal format. I
definitely agree that translating into the binary format is lik
Robert Dewar wrote:
Mark Mitchell wrote:
What I would hope would work would be modifying real.c to (a) directly
suport the decimal format for storage, and (b) update the emulation of
floating-point operations to work correctly on the decimal format. I
definitely agree that translating into the
Mark Mitchell wrote:
I would expect that some decimal floating point values are not precisely
representable in the binary format.
OK, I agree that decimal floating-point needs its own format. But still
you can store the decimal mantissa and decimal exponent in binary format
without any problem, an
Robert Dewar wrote:
Mark Mitchell wrote:
I would expect that some decimal floating point values are not
precisely representable in the binary format.
OK, I agree that decimal floating-point needs its own format. But still
you can store the decimal mantissa and decimal exponent in binary format
wi
Mark Mitchell wrote:
Robert Dewar wrote:
Mark Mitchell wrote:
I would expect that some decimal floating point values are not
precisely representable in the binary format.
OK, I agree that decimal floating-point needs its own format. But still
you can store the decimal mantissa and decimal exponen
