16 Jan
2025
16 Jan
'25
9:42 p.m.
On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, Matt Borland via Boost wrote:
My understanding is POWER6 and 7 had it and 8+ don’t.
I just tested on cfarm120 (POWER10), and I can compile and run programs using _Decimal64 just fine (and it generates instructions like "ddiv", not calls to library emulation). All the documentation I can find says that this processor has both QPFP (__float128) and DFP (_Decimal*). -- Marc Glisse