On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:40:46AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote: > Both AMD and Intel like to have BID as a configure time option > for DFP. Intel is planning to contribute a complete BID runtime > library, which can be used by executables generate by gcc. > > As the first step, we'd like to contribute a BID<->DPD library so that > BID can be used with libdecnumber by executables generate by gcc > before the complete BID runtime library is ready. > > Any comments?
Since most readers of the gcc list aren't specialists in decimal floating point representations, it would be polite to ease up on the acronym soup a bit. DFP = "decimal floating point" BID = "binary integer decimal" DPD = "densely packed decimal"
