Notes from the BOF on DFP on x86/x86-64 at the GCC Summit

2006-07-05 Thread Evandro Menezes
(Resending after update on archive link below.) A proposal was made to pick one the Decimal Floating-Point encodings from the IEEE754r draft in the x86-64 psABI a few weeks ago (see thread starting at http://www.amd64.org/lists/discuss/thrd215.html#08857). Given that any such decision can have mu

Notes from the BOF on DFP on x86/x86-64 at the GCC Summit

2006-06-30 Thread Evandro Menezes
A proposal was made to pick one the Decimal Floating-Point encodings from the IEEE754r draft in the x86-64 psABI a few weeks ago (see thread starting at http://www.amd64.org/lists/discuss/thrd215.html#08857). Given that any such decision can have multiple developments, many users of x86-64 were in