Intel IEEE 754r Decimal Floating-Point BID Library (beta version) now available

["Cornea, Marius" <marius dot cornea at intel dot com>]

We would like to announce the availability of the "Intel IEEE 754r
Decimal Floating-Point BID Library" (beta version), at
http://www3.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/219861.htm under
'Decimal Floating-Point', packaged as a tar file which includes a README
file besides the source code. The library was tested on several Intel
Architecture platforms, with two operating systems (Linux and Microsoft
Windows).

The library, written in C, implements the functions defined for decimal
floating-point arithmetic operations in 'DRAFT Standard for
Floating-Point Arithmetic P754', which is a revision of the IEEE
Standard 754-1985 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. It supports
primarily the operations on decimal floating-point values encoded using
the binary encoding method from the standard draft, but the decimal
encoding method is supported as well through conversion functions: next
to the link for the library there is another link that provides access
to conversion routines between decimal floating-point values encoded
using the binary and the decimal encoding methods. This set of
conversion routines was contributed to GCC 4.3 by Intel Corporation in
January 2007.

The source code provided at this web site can be used in any way that
does not conflict with the license notice found at the top of each file.
If you decide to use the library and have any feedback, please use the
feedback link from the web page. Please note however that the source
code posted on this web site has a BSD license associated to it (the
exact terms are specified in the license notice). We would like to
contribute the library to GCC as well, and that version of the code
would be released under a GPL license + FSF exception.

Thank you,
Marius Cornea
Intel Corporation