Nick Maclaren <nmm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If you are faced with doing this for a system with integers that > don't match C99's model, or with floating-point that doesn't have > a base of 2 or 16, real numbers that are not floating-point or > anything similar, then please contact me by Email before I retire. > That isn't entirely a joke :-) In that case, you may interested in the decimal floating point work which has been put into gcc and some new Intel and PowerPC processors. This is floating point which uses base 10. Ian
