On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:57 PM, keith bierman <keith.bierman at quantum.com> wrote: > > > I. Szczesniak: > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Fedor Sergeev <Fedor.Sergeev at sun.com> > wrote: > ... It is Sun who has to make the first step and create a > SPARC ABI project for decimal floating point support. > > Recall that the SPARC ABI is the property of SPARC International, not Sun > (at least last I looked). Admittedly, Sun has historically done most of the > work ... but there are other stakeholders (e.g. Fujitsu) with substantial > investments.
I will not forget this. I won't forget either that Sun does not bother to implement the SPARC ABI correctly in hardware and instead tweaks 3rd party software to fit their reduced ABI. Irek
