On 7 September 2017 at 18:02, A.J. Bonnema wrote: > On 09/06/2017 06:21 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> >> On 6 September 2017 at 16:59, A.J. Bonnema wrote: >> >> Indeed, when I created a small program, it compiles. Doesn't run as I >> expected (printf shows a different value), but it compiles and runs. > > > The _Decimal type is actually pretty awesome! Except for printf for which I > have to cast back to float or double, it works just like other numeric > variables. Glibc allows printf-hooks that can be used to add support for new types, like the decimal float types. I'm not sure if any hooks are provided by GCC or not. > Apart from that it is not a part of the current C standard (C11) why don't > we see more people talking about this? As far as I can see it is an > excellent addition for financial and reporting applications. Just wondering. The performance isn't as good as some people would like.
