At 10:06 PM 12/12/2004, Jeff Garland wrote:
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:18:30 -0500, Beman Dawes wrote
and resurrect the fixed decimal proposal (it died after it was rejected in review).
A decimal number proposal is starting to move through the C and C++ committees. It is based on work done at IBM, and is designed to work as either library software, or with a hardware accelerator, IIRC. Thus anyone interested might want to become familiar with that proposal before doing any new decimal work.
I assume this is the work from here?
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/ http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1016.htm
Problem I see is that IBM wants a $3000 license fee to use this. I
Yes, but also be sure to read Bill Plauger's critique of N1016: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1567.htm thought
things that went into the standard had to be available on an 'any-use' license like boost -- or are they planning on changing the license if this is accepted?
I don't know but can find out. Do you have a reference that discusses the license? --Beman