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Re: g++ and _DecimalXX types
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: 1263232360 dot 1958 dot 1 dot camel at janis-laptop dot POK dot IBM dot COM
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:15:49 -0800
- Subject: Re: g++ and _DecimalXX types
- References: <20100111190550.0155f51a@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:05 -0800, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > Some of the support for those
> > classes is in current trunk, but a crucial change to the compiler to
> > allow binary compatibility between those classes and the C builtin
> > types wasn't approved before the 4.5 feature cutoff (see
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-11/msg01321.html).
>
> Am a bit alarmed to see this patch dropped on the floor. It seem silly
> to me to have C++ DFP support broken like this, when 4.5 is the first
> release that claims support for this feature. It seems to me like we
> should be trying to generate non-obvious bug reports with this new
> feature, instead of the current unsatisfactory situation which prompted
> this original message.
>
> From what I can tell, this was patch was posted, approved for 4.5 by
> Jason, then delayed while the C++ ABI mailing list reached consensus. I
> see that on 2009-11-24 Mark checked in the ABI change to the official
> document. But then, the patch wasn't pinged, and was forgotten over the
> holidays?
>
> What am I missing?
Jason never responded to the modified patch, and I thought it needed his
approval. I pinged it before the end of stage 3 (or 2, or whatever).
Can you ask Jason if it can still go in? I'm leaving on Thursday for a
3.5 week vacation when I'll be out of touch, but I could test it again
before I go.
Janis