Hi Roy.

 RJT> I've not looked at this issue much lately.  I remember that Mix
 RJT> Power C had a library you could use that would _replace_ the
 RJT> floating point stuff (an approach I was not too happy with),  and
 RJT> I was wondering what might be do-able with regard to this sort of
 RJT> math under other compilers.  I have here MSC6, and TC I think
 RJT> 2.5,  as well as whatever the current release of Slackware is
 RJT> giving me two.

 RJT> Anybody know if BCD is do-able with any of those?  In particular
 RJT> the last one?

 it's easier in c++ (where the programmer can invent new types and define
their behavior with relation to operators like + amd * etc,,,

there are fixed (and also arbitrary) precisiion libraries out there dunno
if they use BCD or some other representation.

 -=> Bye <=-

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