"I. Szczesniak" <iszczesniak at gmail.com> writes:
>> That said, I doubt that I've got the spare time to define a decimal
>> float on SPARC ABI myself and drive that through SPARC International for
>> acceptance. After all, both my GCC and OpenSolaris work are spare-time
>> activities. What I might try is use the established x86/amd64 ABI and
>> try to get GCC to support decimal float on Solaris/x86 and see if I can
>> adapt existing code with appropriate licenses (i.e. not GPL) for the
>> necessary libc additions.
>
> IBM's decnumber [http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/decnumber] has a
> CDDL and CPL1.0 compatible license.
It's already included in GCC, but will need some work to integrate into
libc so *printf/*scanf can handle decimal float.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
