Re: Supporting decimal float on additional platforms

2009-11-20 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Rainer Orth wrote: > > Much the same applies if anyone wishes to add fixed point (TR 18037) > > support for more targets. > > I'll have a look at the last draft (N1169) for now. Right now, only > MIPS support is in GCC, so there seems to be less traction so far. Each of th

Re: Supporting decimal float on additional platforms

2009-11-20 Thread Rainer Orth
"Joseph S. Myers" writes: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Rainer Orth wrote: > >> be added on legacy platforms like IRIX and Tru64 UNIX, and even on >> Solaris probably won't show up until DFP is fully standardized. > > I'd have expected the Solaris maintainers to care more about whether > Solaris custom

Re: Supporting decimal float on additional platforms

2009-11-20 Thread Rainer Orth
Janis Johnson writes: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:19 +0100, Rainer Orth wrote: >> I've recently looked into what it takes to support decimal float on >> additional platforms (like Solaris, IRIX, and Tru64 UNIX in my case). >> I've found no documentation, and while I could figure out some things >>

Re: Supporting decimal float on additional platforms

2009-11-18 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Rainer Orth wrote: > be added on legacy platforms like IRIX and Tru64 UNIX, and even on > Solaris probably won't show up until DFP is fully standardized. I'd have expected the Solaris maintainers to care more about whether Solaris customers are asking for DFP support, than a

Re: Supporting decimal float on additional platforms

2009-11-18 Thread Janis Johnson
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:19 +0100, Rainer Orth wrote: > I've recently looked into what it takes to support decimal float on > additional platforms (like Solaris, IRIX, and Tru64 UNIX in my case). > I've found no documentation, and while I could figure out some things > myself, I'd like to get some