[nyrikki]

Hardware Decimal floating point is very useful, both for legacy and new financial systems and some numerical problems you need improved stability on.

[RustyRussell]

Dropped in the latest Power chips I believe.

I had a friend who worked on it: he called it simply "decimal floating" because there was no point :)

[bear8642]

Although frustratingly loosing support with the new open xlc compiler!