On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:18:59PM +0100, I. Szczesniak wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Fedor Sergeev <Fedor.Sergeev at sun.com> > wrote: > > 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,
I'm talking mostly for myself, being responsible for engineering of Sun Studio C compiler frontend. I'm not really a member of any scientific/computational community, whose I assume might very well be interested in this feature, so I have no knowledge on those community needs. Nor I have seen any requests from customers flying around about that. As decimal floating point support is not likely to be included into the upcoming C and C++ standards (at least not sought out as that right now) it is "categorized" for SunStudio compiler project as a useful gcc feature. We do work on "useful gcc features", but honestly this one does not have a chance to hit the first half of my own priority list. Would it move from a technical report into the standard, that would change alot. regards, Fedor. -- Fedor Sergeev, Sun Studio C compiler > 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
