Duncan Sands wrote:
We are working on a project to add fixed-point arithmetic support to GCC.
A GCC project description page is available here
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FixedPointArithmetic
and we will create a GCC branch in the near future. If you have
any suggestions or comments, please respond.
I expect the Ada front-end people will be interested: the Ada language
incorporates binary and decimal fixed point types. AFAIK, it is all
done using emulation at the moment.
I don't know what emulation means here, obviously there is little
hardware support. Ada generates perfectly efficient fixed-point code,
but the code is generated in the front end. It might be possible
to share back end code if the semantics is exactly what Ada needs.
Best wishes,
Duncan.
