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

Supporting decimal float on additional platforms

2009-11-18 Thread Rainer Orth
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 advice before continuing down that road. I found that --enabl