On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Fedor Sergeev <Fedor.Sergeev at sun.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:01:46PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote: >> Maxim Kartashev <Maxim.Kartashev at Sun.COM> writes: >> >> > You're talking about additions to libc, if I got you right. This has little >> >> This is only a small part of it. We're talking about new C (and >> eventually C++) types (_Decimal32, _Decimal64, _Decimal128), additions >> to the SPARC (and i386/amd64) ABIs on how to pass arguments and return >> values of those types, and of course the compiler support for them. >> >> > to do with Sun Studio, it's more of a Solaris question. Maybe you should >> > try different alias. >> >> I don't think so: this is very much compiler stuff. > > This is indeed a compiler stuff, but not completely in Sun Studio land. > Considerable chunk of work is in Solaris, and whats more important ABI > additions > are ARC charter and not controlled by Sun Studio at all. > > To be honest, I myself did not yet read this TR, and that in particular is > due to the > fact that we did not have any requests to support it till this very moment. > > Eventually we will, but we need to prioritize. > And getting external interest for the feature helps putting proper priorities.
Interest in decimal floating point support has been expressed in Opensolaris mailing lists in 2007. You can't claim that there is no interest in the community or customers, although customers who miss this feature look elsewhere for an operating system which supports this feature. It is Sun who has to make the first step and create a SPARC ABI project for decimal floating point support. Irek
