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RE: Patch: Add BID decimal floating point format
- From: "Menezes, Evandro" <evandro dot menezes at amd dot com>
- To: "Florian Weimer" <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, "Meissner, Michael" <michael dot meissner at amd dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Harle, Christophe" <christophe dot harle at amd dot com>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, bje at au1 dot ibm dot com, "Janis Johnson" <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:44:09 -0600
- Subject: RE: Patch: Add BID decimal floating point format
- References: <6096959DEF5C9447A6BF80BDC7EB9EDC06155C2C@SBOSEXMB1.amd.com> <87y7mjwb4y.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Floriam,
> Are DPD and BID universal terms? If not, it might make sense to
> reference a definition (or provide one).
The DPD and BID acronyms are extensively used in the 754r conference calls. Densely packed decimals, what DPD stands for, appears in the draft found at http://754r.ucbtest.org/drafts/754r.pdf. However, although both BID and DPD have been voted as valid decimal FP formats, there's no draft yet that mentions the former.
HTH
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