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Re: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project
- From: Duncan Sands <duncan dot sands at math dot u-psud dot fr>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: "Fu, Chao-Ying" <fu at mips dot com>, "Thekkath, Radhika" <radhika at mips dot com>, "Stephens, Nigel" <nigel at mips dot com>, Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:24:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project
- References: <3CB54817FDF733459B230DD27C690CEC012BB135@Exchange.mips.com>
> We are working on a project to add fixed-point arithmetic support to GCC.
> A GCC project description page is available here
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FixedPointArithmetic
> and we will create a GCC branch in the near future. If you have
> any suggestions or comments, please respond.
I expect the Ada front-end people will be interested: the Ada language
incorporates binary and decimal fixed point types. AFAIK, it is all
done using emulation at the moment.
Best wishes,
Duncan.