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Re: std::decimal status
- From: Janis Johnson <janis_johnson at mentor dot com>
- To: Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>
- Cc: Jess Morecroft <jess at aecapital dot com dot au>, libstdc++ <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:58:47 -0700
- Subject: Re: std::decimal status
- References: <5089C88A.4070505@aecapital.com.au> <5089DF35.4010100@oracle.com>
- Reply-to: <janisjo at codesourcery dot com>
On 10/25/2012 05:54 PM, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/26/2012 01:17 AM, Jess Morecroft wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are wondering if there is any plan in the works to complete Janis
>> Johnson's libstdc++ implementation of the Decimal TR (ISO/IEC DTR
>> 24733) aka std::decimal? It looks like what's there is very nearly
>> complete, however the absence of string I/O and quantize methods (to
>> implement simple rounding) are deal-breakers for us.
> I'm not aware of anybody working on it. At minimum some general guidance
> from Janis would be highly appreciated. Personally, I'm not even sure
> the missing bits belong to the C++ library proper vs the front-end or
> the C library.
>
> Janis?
>
> Thanks,
> Paolo.
I think people at IBM, particularly Ryan Arnold, have continued
to look at decimal float support. There's a project that's part
of EGLIBC for C library support, and Ryan once asked me some
questions about the missing support in the C++ library.
Janis