I would think the crucial difference is that pthreads pretty much come with the platform, while the C decimal math lib would have to be included with its wrapper's distribution from boost to insure availability - correct me if I am wrong. m

-----Original Message----- From: David Abrahams [mailto:dave@boost-consulting.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 11:41 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] Re: Is there interest in a decimal floating-point class?

Max Khesin <MKhesin@liquidnet.com> writes:

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I think this is very valuable, but I really doubt boost library guidelines would allow including a wrapper over a C library, as the C library certainly would not be confirming with boost coding (and possibly licensing) standards. Perhaps you should propose your wrapper as the library interface, if you are willing to reimplement the guts later.

I don't think that's neccessarily a problem. Boost.Threads is "just a wrapper" over the pthreads library on some platforms.

-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com

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