Supporting decimal float on additional platforms

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Rainer Orth wrote:

> be added on legacy platforms like IRIX and Tru64 UNIX, and even on
> Solaris probably won't show up until DFP is fully standardized.

I'd have expected the Solaris maintainers to care more about whether 
Solaris customers are asking for DFP support, than about whether it is an 
ISO/IEC Technical Report Type 2 (as at present - TR 24732:2009 published 
2009-01-05) or an International Standard.

As Janis says, the psABI needs to be aware of decimal floating point, so 
if there is any group or community for a particular target concerned with 
its ABI for interoperability between multiple implementations, you should 
work with them on establishing the ABI for decimal floating point for that 
target.

Much the same applies if anyone wishes to add fixed point (TR 18037) 
support for more targets.

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Joseph S. Myers
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