Tobias Schwinger wrote:
Gerhard Wesp wrote:
Whoever thinks about arbitrary precision arithmetic, please take a look at M.J. Kronenburg's proposal for TR2, which has been briefly discussed at the last WG21 meeting:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1692.pdf
Read it already. I also agree that it seems the most appropriate paper to influence the SoC work.
Yes and no. There are so many aspects in the implementation (some of them I mentioned in earlier) that make any approach completely useless if they're not considered and thought about very deeply. And: I'm afraid that are very complicated things. Sorry to say that, but creating 'something' that is influenced a WG21 proposal by isn't the right way here, it's *really* just waste of time! As I tried to explain before, the only useful thing to do in this field I can imagine is an arbitrary length integer implementation that can later be used to implement a decimal class. I promise, it will be complex enough to encapsulate the integer encoding for all platforms, and once when such aspects are resolved, any other work is welcome, too! Stefan