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Re: [RFC] preliminary patch to move decimal float runtime to new libs
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Janis Johnson wrote:
> Is there support from GCC maintainers for putting wider decimal float
> support into a library provided by GCC?
Where the interfaces are defined to be declared in headers provided by the
C library, and so you need to modify those headers, I think a C library
add-on is the best approach for providing these interfaces in the GNU
system. This does not mean putting everything in libc; an add-on could
provide a separate library (and probably should so the libc ABI doesn't
depend on whether the add-on is present or not). Some sources could still
be shared with GCC if that proves convenient for other targets, but DFP is
only supported for GNU/Linux targets at present.
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Joseph S. Myers
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