RFA; DFP and REAL_TYPE?

[Mark Mitchell]

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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