Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?

By: anon (an.delete@this.n.com), December 18, 2020 12:23 pm
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Per Hesselgren (perhesselgren.delete@this.yahoo.se) on December 18, 2020 9:16 am wrote:
> anon (an.delete@this.n.com) on December 18, 2020 8:29 am wrote:
> > I read that C2X (the next C language revision) will add support for decimal floating point.
> > I know that POWER and SPARC CPUs have hardware support for decimal FP,
> > but are there any plans to include it on future x86 or ARM CPUs?
> >
> > Also, which languages have native support (without libraries) for decimal FP right now?
> > I know of COBOL, PL/I, Ada, C# and F#. Any others?
>
> Free Pascal:
> Currency in Free Pascal

I thought about Free Pascal right after I clicked the post button. But Free Pascal supports only 64bit decimals while the others support 128bit FP decimals and/or fixed decimals.
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Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?anon2020/12/18 09:29 AM
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      Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?dmcq2020/12/18 06:18 PM
  Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?rwessel2020/12/18 07:57 PM
    Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?dmcq2020/12/19 04:41 AM
      Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?rwessel2020/12/19 08:54 AM
        Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Michael S2020/12/19 10:48 AM
          Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?rwessel2020/12/20 09:25 AM
            Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?blaine2020/12/20 11:52 AM
              Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?rwessel2020/12/20 01:44 PM
                Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?blaine2020/12/20 05:29 PM
              Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Konrad Schwarz2020/12/21 04:17 AM
            Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Adrian2020/12/21 10:05 AM
  Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Konrad Schwarz2020/12/20 09:47 AM
    Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?rwessel2020/12/20 11:28 AM
    Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Linus Torvalds2020/12/20 11:39 AM
      Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?dmcq2020/12/20 12:06 PM
        Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Konrad Schwarz2020/12/21 03:31 AM
          Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Brendan2020/12/21 05:49 AM
            Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?dmcq2020/12/21 07:59 AM
      Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Adrian2020/12/21 09:51 AM
        Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Linus Torvalds2020/12/21 12:12 PM
          Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Adrian2020/12/21 01:29 PM
          Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?dmcq2020/12/21 04:13 PM
      Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?David Hess2020/12/21 07:15 PM
        Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Konrad Schwarz2020/12/22 01:04 AM
          Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?David Hess2020/12/22 01:05 PM
    Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?blaine2020/12/20 12:40 PM
      Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?Per Hesselgren2020/12/21 04:33 AM
        Decimal floating point on x86 and ARM?rwessel2020/12/21 06:17 AM
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