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Re: RFC: Add BID as a configure time option for DFP
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, marius dot cornea at intel dot com, evandro dot menezes at amd dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:12:28 -0800
- Subject: Re: RFC: Add BID as a configure time option for DFP
- References: <20070110194045.GA22005@lucon.org>
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:40:46AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Both AMD and Intel like to have BID as a configure time option
> for DFP. Intel is planning to contribute a complete BID runtime
> library, which can be used by executables generate by gcc.
>
> As the first step, we'd like to contribute a BID<->DPD library so that
> BID can be used with libdecnumber by executables generate by gcc
> before the complete BID runtime library is ready.
>
> Any comments?
Since most readers of the gcc list aren't specialists in decimal floating
point representations, it would be polite to ease up on the acronym soup a
bit.
DFP = "decimal floating point"
BID = "binary integer decimal"
DPD = "densely packed decimal"