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Re: Stage 2 project: upgrade decNumber

Janis Johnson wrote:

>> But it looks like libdecnumber is processed in stage 1.  What if the
>> stage 1 compiler doesn't handle C++ comments?
> 
> Right, decNumber is used in the C compiler and it's the C++ comments
> that convinced me of the need to modify the sources.  While I'm at it I
> might as well get rid of CRLF (col does that nicely), and after that
> it's no more work to run it through indent so it will look like our
> other code.

I think it's fine to put this upgrade in, assuming all the usual testing.

FWIW, keeping this as much like the upstream sources as possible seems
desirable to me; I'd probably do the C++ comments and leave it at that,
just to ease future merges.  But, that's just my two cents.

Thanks,

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