From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Kito Cheng <kito.cheng@gmail.com>, GCC <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: IEEE Interchange floating point and extended floating point for C++
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:27:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH6eHdSq2vXtA2-rf7DBtutoOditcSBsiaQPbFgfUaD3gBzQSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2103111424510.879960@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 15:32, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Kito Cheng wrote:
>
> > I've read the note about C++ support from the initial commit log[1],
> > so I know there is some concern about C++ support for that, is it
> > possible to enable that for C++ like a language extension for C++?
>
> I don't know if C++ has reached any conclusions about what form C++
> support for such types should take, but my expectation was that something
> library-based, similar to the support for decimal floating-point types,
> might be used.
I don't think a pure library solution is likely. It's definitely not
the direction taken by the recent proposals in the area.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-12 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 9:07 Kito Cheng
2021-03-11 12:56 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-03-11 14:02 ` Gabriel Ravier
2021-03-11 15:14 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-03-11 15:14 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-03-12 6:50 ` Kito Cheng
2021-03-11 14:26 ` Joseph Myers
2021-03-12 7:17 ` Kito Cheng
2021-03-12 9:27 ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2021-03-12 11:42 ` Sjoerd Meijer
2021-03-12 12:31 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-03-12 17:49 ` Joseph Myers
2021-03-12 18:14 ` Joseph Myers
2021-03-12 20:53 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-03-12 21:55 ` Joseph Myers
2021-03-12 22:03 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-03-15 10:16 ` Sjoerd Meijer
2021-03-15 10:20 ` Jonathan Wakely
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