From -8044203156476451249 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,fed4da4ddd62c919 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-01 01:05:33 PST Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!world!miket From: miket@world.std.com (Michael Trachtman) Subject: Packed Decimal and C++ Message-ID: Organization: High Level Designs X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:37:59 GMT Lines: 15 Will C++ ever have a standard set of types and operations for packed decimal based numbers ? Such a set of types would be useful for writing base 10, arbitrary precision, penny accuracy (i.e. no floating point round off errors) programs. The standard would not have to give the implementation. It would just give the class declaration together with a sample implementation. This would not require new keywords, since it would be a class library. However, a compiler vendor would be free to implement it internally, and generate high quality assembler on those machines that have hardware support for Packed decimal. Michael T.