std::decimal status

[Janis Johnson]

On 10/25/2012 05:54 PM, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/26/2012 01:17 AM, Jess Morecroft wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are wondering if there is any plan in the works to complete Janis 
>> Johnson's libstdc++ implementation of the Decimal TR (ISO/IEC DTR 
>> 24733) aka std::decimal? It looks like what's there is very nearly 
>> complete, however the absence of string I/O and quantize methods (to 
>> implement simple rounding) are deal-breakers for us.
> I'm not aware of anybody working on it. At minimum some general guidance 
> from Janis would be highly appreciated. Personally, I'm not even sure 
> the missing bits belong to the C++ library proper vs the front-end or 
> the C library.
> 
> Janis?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paolo.

I think people at IBM, particularly Ryan Arnold, have continued
to look at decimal float support.  There's a project that's part
of EGLIBC for C library support, and Ryan once asked me some
questions about the missing support in the C++ library.

Janis