About decimal floating point support

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

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.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery