Re: [Mingw-w64-public] mingw-w64 Decimal Floating Point math

2011-04-03 Thread James K Beard
Jon: If people want simplicity to attract people who want to port COBOL code and generate new code for financial users that have used only COBOL in the past, a new class defined through JTC1 and other international standards is definitely the way to go. The most important library functions to

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] mingw-w64 Decimal Floating Point math

2011-04-03 Thread JonY
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/3/2011 22:07, James K Beard wrote: > A quick glance through the document seems to tell us that the decimal > arithmetic will incorporate checks to ensure that any rounding in binary > floating point does not compromise the accuracy of the final

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] mingw-w64 Decimal Floating Point math

2011-04-03 Thread James K Beard
A quick glance through the document seems to tell us that the decimal arithmetic will incorporate checks to ensure that any rounding in binary floating point does not compromise the accuracy of the final decimal result. That’s pretty much what I was suggesting in my message of March 26 below.

[Mingw-w64-public] upcoming TR2, IEEE754-2008, and the possibility of new processors

2011-04-03 Thread Jim Michaels
just from scanning a few things related to BOOST and TR2's documents, I got this: -- http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2849.pdf http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_31_0/tools/build/v1/mingw-tools.h