RFA; DFP and REAL_TYPE?

[Robert Dewar]

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 don't have an opinion on exactly what method of modifying real.c would 
> be cleanest.
>