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Re: About decimal floating point support
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Wu Zhou <woodzltc at cn dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:40:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: About decimal floating point support
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606132327010.6826@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:51:23PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
> What is your current thought about this? Do you still think it is more
> feasible to put libdecnumber at the top level repository? I am now
> considering copy the code of libdecnumber (which is at the top level of
> gcc repository) to the top level of gdb repository. and use that to
> re-implment DFP support. If the code of libdecnumber is changed, we can
> synchronize that to gdb repository. Then gdb developers don't need to
> maintain these sensitive numeric code.
>
> What do you think on this? Your comments are highly appreciated!
I think it's a good idea.
DJ, if we copied libdecnumber to src, would you be able to add it to
your sync scripts? The src copy would be strictly read-only.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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