Hi all, I think it's correct to say that many of us would like to see an IEEE conforming implementation of a decimal floating point library in boost. AFAIK C++ is the last of the important programming languages which has none in it's standard library. While it's for sure a major project to start from scratch and write a complete implementation (I don't know if there ever will be a group of people who are able *and* willing to do that...), there's maybe another option: IBM has recently put their C implementation (which is widely known as reference implementation) under GPL as part of GCC. It would be quite easy to write a C++ wrapper around this library and put it all together into boost, and I would volunteer to do that. So: - are we allowed to do that? - is this desirable? Thoughts? Stefan