16 Jan
2025
16 Jan
'25
5:05 p.m.
On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, John Maddock via Boost wrote:
The review of the proposed Decimal Number library by Matt Borland and Chris Kormanyos begins today and runs until 22nd Jan.
You will find documentation here: https://cppalliance.org/decimal/decimal.html
There exists hardware that supports decimal numbers, but I don't see that discussed anywhere (how does the boost type interact with the native one?). Did I look for the wrong keywords?
-- Marc Glisse
There is no interoperability with hardware types. Machines with a decimal floating point unit are rare, and we have no access to one in order to make interoperability work. Matt