> Some of the support for those > classes is in current trunk, but a crucial change to the compiler to > allow binary compatibility between those classes and the C builtin > types wasn't approved before the 4.5 feature cutoff (see > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-11/msg01321.html).
Am a bit alarmed to see this patch dropped on the floor. It seem silly to me to have C++ DFP support broken like this, when 4.5 is the first release that claims support for this feature. It seems to me like we should be trying to generate non-obvious bug reports with this new feature, instead of the current unsatisfactory situation which prompted this original message. From what I can tell, this was patch was posted, approved for 4.5 by Jason, then delayed while the C++ ABI mailing list reached consensus. I see that on 2009-11-24 Mark checked in the ABI change to the official document. But then, the patch wasn't pinged, and was forgotten over the holidays? What am I missing? -benjamin
