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Re: [patches] DFP for EGLIBC



The new version of the libdecnumber library from gcc has been checked into braches/libdfp.

Jim Blandy <jimb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/01/2007 03:09:40 PM:

> In the long run, I think we want to see libdfp.so as the only
> installed .so, absorbing libdecnumber.so.  libdecnumber.so doesn't
> implement an interface that we want people to be using; they should
> use the interface described in TR24732.  (I gather libdecnumber needs
> to stay separate at the source level, but we don't need to install it
> that way.)  Then, libdfp will have BID and DPD sysdep directories used
> as appropriate.

The version I checked in still builds a separate libdecnumber.so. We'll be moving toward a single libdfp.so with the libdecnumber bits included.


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Pete Eberlein
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