Re: RFA; DFP and REAL_TYPE?

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> > What I would hope would work would be modifying real.c to (a) directly 
> > suport the decimal format for storage, and (b) update the emulation of 
> > floating-point operations to work correctly on the decimal format.  I 
> > definitely agree that translating into the binary format is likely to 
> > result in various errors.
>
>
> I see no reason not to use binary format to store decimal numbers ...

I would expect that some decimal floating point values are not precisely 
representable in the binary format.

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