Re: C++ equivalent to spaghetti code

[Pete Becker]

On 2008-07-23 03:42:29 -0400, James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> said:

> On Jul 22, 7:21 pm, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > C doesn't have any support for decimal arithmetic, nor any means
> > > of adding it comfortably.
>
> > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/open/n4060.pdf
>
> Yes, I'd heard about this.  But I wasn't too sure of its status,
> and it isn't implemented by the compilers I regularly use.

C and C++ both have TR's for decimal floating-point in the works. They 
were paused, waiting for IEEE-754R, a revision to IEEE-754 that 
includes decimal floating-point, to be completed. That happened a month 
or so ago, and now both TR's are moving forward.

--
 Pete
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Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference 
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