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by krueger71 987 days ago
What's the opinion here on decimal floating point (_Decimal32/64/128)? I'm guessing there's a significant amount of business software using double for monetary amounts out there that could benefit this being standardized. I think it has been in gcc for over a decade as an extension though...
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The extension was the reference implementation of the TS. As for its uses, IBM was the main organisation to push for this (they implemented DFP extension on gcc too) so I guess their customers (most probably on the mainframe business) have a need for it.