Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Decimal Floating Point Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:36:06 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 28 Message-ID: <874kaseyo9.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <2bff66f3-391b-4785-9c43-1f056106d6a1n@googlegroups.com> <993af611-3442-412b-8fc8-2e1d081f0d36n@googlegroups.com> <87lf44fgbr.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cfa5066fdd7a02a7116baf7d27d0b3c4"; logging-data="19876"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18EUdaB7Yi5Td1pyVqiZU8J" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VXD7UDYI65YVa+Bk960Mseqh1Zo= sha1:LUQDEjtIorYUzwggqukODmlauKs= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:162727 Keith Thompson writes: > "james...@alumni.caltech.edu" writes: >> On Friday, September 10, 2021 at 9:35:09 AM UTC-4, Fabian Russell wrote: >>> Decimal floating point was standardized as IEEE758-2008 and new C types >>> were defined: _Decimal128, _Decimal64, and _Decimal32. >> >> Can you cite a reference for that? The latest draft of the C standard that I >> currently have access to is n2176.pdf, a draft version of the standard that >> eventually got approved as C2017. I found no mention of those types in that >> document. > > See n2596.pdf, a more recent draft of the C 202x standard. Yes, decimal > floating-point is being proposed as an optional standard C feature. > > http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2176.pdf > > [...] Sorry, that was a typo (or rather a copy-and-pasto). The correct URL is http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2596.pdf and that one isn't (currently) password-protected. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com Working, but not speaking, for Philips void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */