Re: [boost] Status of ISO/IEC TR 24733 library idea?

Subject: Re: [boost] Status of ISO/IEC TR 24733 library idea?
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-06 08:10:40

>> There is ISO/IEC TR 24733 draft on decimal floating-point arithmetic.
>> I found old thread by Stefan Slapeta: Decimal floating point library [1] 
>> I wonder, what is status
> of this idea
>> in Boost?
>>
>> [1] http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/02/101457.php
>
> Sadly the GPL license put a blocker on using any of IBM's code inside 
> Boost, as was noted by several
> people at the time
>
> http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/02/101466.php
>
> We need someone to start from scratch in a 'clean room'?
>
> GSoC project?

Maybe not: decNumber is dual licensed (not sure if this is a new development 
or not), but the C code is available under the terms of the ICU license 
which is probably Boost-compatible (looks to be nearly the same as the old 
SGI STL license from which ours is derived) 
http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/license.html

And current decNumber download under those terms from 
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/#decNumber.

HTH, John.