These features can find use in embedded micro controllers and situation where you do not want rounding errors. x86 and ppc sound like Intel and Power PC specific. Of course once introduced some one must maintain it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20130910/8cff2269/attachment.html>
On 9 September 2013 20:21, Suminda Dharmasena <sirinath at sakrio.com> wrote:> These features can find use in embedded micro controllers and situation > where you do not want rounding errors.Not until someone comes up with a language specifying them (or at least a highly suspect variant of C specifying them) they can't. Tim.
Perhaps this can be used in DSLs if it is there. I don't see why you should wait for a language adaptation. Perhaps you can add it to Clang as an extension. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20130910/59b70c1d/attachment.html>