Re: gcc extension versus external library

2012-09-19 Thread Hesham Moustafa
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:58 PM, H.J. Lu wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Mohamed Abou Samra > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'd like to know the performance differences between any gcc extension and >> other external library I link it to my code as I linked Intel's DFP library >> to my code

Re: Are Decimal operations are fully implemented/tested ?

2012-09-12 Thread Hesham Moustafa
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-09-12 11:29:41 +0300, Hesham Moustafa wrote: >> I want to inquire about the state of decimal floating point operations >> at gcc low-level library. >> Does gcc fully implement IEEE 754-2008 standard ? > &g

Are Decimal operations are fully implemented/tested ?

2012-09-12 Thread Hesham Moustafa
Hey, I want to inquire about the state of decimal floating point operations at gcc low-level library. Does gcc fully implement IEEE 754-2008 standard ? I know that gcc support _Decimal64 / _Decimal128 as a decimal types and i did some simple operations on it. Also i want to be sure if the current