Beman Dawes wrote:
I asked on one of the committee reflectors, and the response was that the library IBM licenses isn't what is being standardized, so there is no issue. For C, what will be standardized are built-in data types, not a library. For C++, what will be standardized may be a library, but it will be designed for C++.
From a user's perspective, yes. Internally, the solution will be based on the same C interface to enable any hardware support for the future, no?
Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding your meaning. Are you saying in effect that decimal types should have be standardized in C and C++ a long time ago?
Yes, today there are some proposals for extensions that I bet are useful for _much_ less people than a decimal data type would be. br, Stefan