Menezes, Evandro - RE: Patch: Add BID decimal floating point format (original) (raw)

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• From: "Menezes, Evandro"
• To: "Florian Weimer" , "Meissner, Michael"
• Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Harle, Christophe" , "H. J. Lu" , bje at au1 dot ibm dot com, "Janis Johnson"
• Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:44:09 -0600
• Subject: RE: Patch: Add BID decimal floating point format
• References: <6096959DEF5C9447A6BF80BDC7EB9EDC06155C2C@SBOSEXMB1.amd.com> <87y7mjwb4y.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

Floriam,

Are DPD and BID universal terms? If not, it might make sense to reference a definition (or provide one).

The DPD and BID acronyms are extensively used in the 754r conference calls. Densely packed decimals, what DPD stands for, appears in the draft found at http://754r.ucbtest.org/drafts/754r.pdf. However, although both BID and DPD have been voted as valid decimal FP formats, there's no draft yet that mentions the former.

HTH

--

Evandro Menezes AMD Austin, TX

• References:
  • Patch: Add BID decimal floating point format
    * From: Meissner, Michael
  • Re: Patch: Add BID decimal floating point format
    * From: Florian Weimer