Re: Decimal: Formal review begins.

From: Marc Glisse (marc.glisse_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-01-16 21:42:59

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, Matt Borland via Boost wrote:

> My understanding is POWER6 and 7 had it and 8+ don’t.

I just tested on cfarm120 (POWER10), and I can compile and run programs 
using _Decimal64 just fine (and it generates instructions like "ddiv", not 
calls to library emulation). All the documentation I can find says that 
this processor has both QPFP (__float128) and DFP (_Decimal*).

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Marc Glisse