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Libdfp
The "Decimal Floating Point C Library" Developer's Guide
for the GNU/Linux OS and GLIBC 2.10
Contributed by IBM Corporation
Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Free Software Foundation
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NOTE:Eight space tabs are the optimum editor setting for reading this file.
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Author(s) : Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Andreas Krebbel <Andreas.Krebbel@de.ibm.com>
Date Created: July 14, 2009
Last Changed: January 21, 2010
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Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
1.1. ISO/IEC TR 24732
1.2. IEEE 754-2008 (DPD & BID Encodings)
1.3. Backends (libdecnumber & libbid)
2. Availability
3. Compliance With ISO/IEC TR 24732
3.1 __STDC_WANT_DEC_FP__
3.2 scanf
4. Dependencies
4.1 GNU/Linux OS
4.2 GLIBC Minimum Version
4.3 GLIBC Headers
4.4 libdecnumber
4.5 GCC With --enable-decimal-float Support
4.6 Autoconf & GNU Make
5. Configuration
5.1 Configure Switches
6. Source Tree Layout
7. Make Rules
8. Adding New Functions (API changes) (TODO)
8. Precision (TODO)
9. Testing (make check) (TODO)
10. Contribution Checklist (TODO)
11. Coding Style (TODO)
12. DFP ABI (TODO)
13. Division of Responsibility With GCC (TODO)
A. History
B. Acknowledgements
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1. Introduction
The "Decimal Floating Point C Library" is an implementation of ISO/IEC
Technical report "ISO/IEC TR 24732" which describes the C-Language library
routines necessary to provide the C library runtime support for decimal
floating point data types introduced in IEEE 754-2008, namely _Decimal32,
_Decimal64, and _Decimal128.
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1.1. ISO/IEC TR 24732
The latest description of ISO/IEC TR 24732 at the time of this writing can
be found here:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1312.pdf
A rationale can be found here:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1242.pdf
And the last draft for new standard can be found at:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1775.pdf
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1.2. IEEE754-2008 (DPD & BID Encodings)
IEEE 754-2008 defines two different encodings for the decimal floating
point data types. These are DPD and BID.
DPD (Densely Packed Decimal) - IBM sponsored encoding (implemented
in hardware).
BID (Binary Integer Decimal) - Intel sponsored encoding.
A simple explanation of the general overview of Decimal Floaing Point
can be found at
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decbits.pdf
The BID format encoding general explanation can be found at
BID - Binary-Integer Decimal Encoding for Decimal Floating Point
| Ping Tak Peter Tang
http://m1.archiveorange.com/m/att/KGyKy/ArchiveOrange_Ps0PWkD0ZgCLBVQYnJEcnXblPpEa.pdf
Both encodings can be investigated in the draft IEEE754r:
http://754r.ucbtest.org/drafts/archive/2006-10-04.pdf
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1.3. Backends (libdecnumber & libbid)
Libdfp use of "libdecnumber" backend library for software emulation.
Libdecnumber was written by Mike Cowlishaw (IBM) and a form of the library
was donated to the FSF where it was subsumed into GCC. The Free Software
Foundation assigned GCC as the owner of libdecnumber and now any project that
needs to include libdecnumber statically needs to pull it from the GCC source
trees. All patches to libdecnumber should be sent to GCC.
This library's copy of libdecnumber should be periodically synced with
upstream GCC's version. This syncing is the responsibility of the Libdfp
maintainer.
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2. Availability
Libdfp attempts to provide an encoding agnostic API to users based
upon the _Decimal32, _Decimal64, and _Decimal128 data-types.
Libdfp is available to be configured in the following combinations:
Arch HW|SW Backend Encoding
-------------------------------------------------
ppc970 SW libdecnumber DPD
POWER4 SW libdecnumber DPD
POWER SW libdecnumber DPD
POWER6 HW libdecnumber DPD
POWER7 HW libdecnumber DPD
S/390 z9-109 SW libdecnumber DPD
S/390 z9-ec HW libdecnumber DPD
S/390 z10 HW libdecnumber DPD
TODO:
-------------------------------------------------
x86 SW libdecnumber DPD | BID
x86_64 SW libdecnumber DPD | BID
The selection of a backend and/or an encoding is made at configuration time
by the distro maintainer or person building libdfp using configuration
flags described in the section entitled "Configuration".
A summary with information regarding "libdecnumber" and Decimal Floating
Point in general can be found at:
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/
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3. Compliance With ISO/IEC TR 24732
This section covers issues related to compliance with ISO/IEC TR 24732.
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3.1 __STDC_WANT_DEC_FP__
The standard ISO/IEC TR 24732 indicates that programs that wish to use
Decimal Floating Point should define the following macro:
__STDC_WANT_DEC_FP__
There is no set value for this macro.
Simply passing -D__STDC_WANT_DEC_FP__ on compilation, or defining it in your
program should suffice:
#define __STDC_WANT_DEC_FP__
This macro is REQUIRED when including dfp/math.h dfp/fenv.h, etc to pick
up the DFP function prototypes and data types defined in these headers.
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3.2 scanf
Libdfp does not, and will not comply with the TR 24732 requirement for the
addition of scanf in support of decimal floating point data types. The
strtod[32|64|128] functions can be used for the same purpose without the
implications of scanf.
This is main due the fact GLIBC does not support scanf hooks as it does
for printf.
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3.3 printf
Libdfp supports the addition of the printf format codes indicated by TR
24732. GLIBC proper owns the printf implementation. Libdfp utilizes the
printf-hooks mechanism provided by GLIBC to register support of the DFP
format codes.
The fully functional printf-hooks mechanism was debuted in GLIBC 2.10.
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4. Dependencies
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4.1 GNU/Linux OS
Libdfp is only enabled to work on the GNU/Linux OS.
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4.2 GLIBC Minimum Version
Libdfp version 1.0.0 relies upon a minimum GLIBC 2.10 for printf-hooks
support. The libdfp configure stage will check the libc that it is linked
against for the printf-hook support and will warn if it is not found.
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4.4 libdecnumber
The libdecnumber library has it's own configure and Makefile fragments.
This is so that it can be built from within any source tree simply by
passing the necessary configure flags.
In reality it's a bit more complicated.
The libdecnumber library requires the --enable-decimal-float flag when
being configured.
This pushes this requirement upon the top level Libdfp 'configure'. Sadly
this is necessary because Autoconf doesn't allow passing flags to
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS. It only passes the --with and --enable flags of the
parent configure fragment to the child, therefore the parent needs to have
all the flags used by the child.
We used the --enable-decimal-float flag to indicate which encoding to use,
DPD or BID. The following are valid:
--enable-decimal-float=dpd
--enable-decimal-float=bid
--enable-decimal-float=yes {uses the host default encoding}
Specifying --enable-decimal-float=no simply defaults to the host default
encoding as well.
Some of the files in the Libdfp top directory are symlinked to the actual
files in the ./scripts directory. This is because libdecnumber lives in
the GCC source tree and GCC doesn't use AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([scripts]) but
Libdfp DOES. This is required so that libdecnumber/configure.ac ->
configure works properly.
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4.5 GCC With --enable-decimal-float Support
There's a dependency on a version of GCC which supports Decimal Floating
Point. Use the following to determine if your compiler supports it:
gcc -v 2>&1 | grep "\-\-enable\-decimal\-float"
If decimal floating point support is not available in your compiler the
libdfp configure stage will fail with a warning.
Between GCC 4.3 and GCC 4.5 the compiler exported constant
__DEC32_DENORMAL_MIN__ was changed to __DEC32_SUBNORMAL_MIN__. Libdfp now
uses __DEC32_SUBNORMAL_MIN__. If you see errors like the following then you
need to upgrade your compiler:
error: '__DEC32_SUBNORMAL_MIN__' undeclared (first use in this function)
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4.6 Autoconf & GNU Make
This Library uses Autoconf to generate GNU Makefiles from Makefile.in
templates and NOT Automake because Automake is incapable of selecting .S or
.c source files from an override directory. Automake is poorly suited for
system libraries which require flexibility based on assembler code
overrides and submachine architecture overrides. Automake demands that the
target file list be statically defined.
If you need to re-run autoreconf -i you need to use Autoconf version 2.59
because libdecnumber explicitly requires it. Here's a hint on how to use a
particular autoconf version:
PATH=/usr/local/autoconf-2.59/bin/:$PATH autoreconf -i
This of course requires that you've installed Autoconf version 2.59 with
--prefix=/usr/local/autoconf-2.59/
Some of the Makefile machinery was inspired by the GLIBC Makefiles,
beautifully written by Roland McGrath since this library was originally a
GLIBC add-on.
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5. Configuration
Standalone libdfp requires that your build directory be separate from
the source directory. Invoke the source directory's 'configure' script
from within the build directory, e.g.
/home/$USER/stage_libdfp/build/$ ../libdfp/configure
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5.1 Configure Switches
Environment Variables
PATH
Set the PATH environment variable. If this is specified and paths
to CC, CXX, OBJDUMP, LDD, and GDB aren't defined, libdfp configure
will search in $PATH for these binaries.
CC
[OPTIONAL: Picked up from $PATH if not specified.]
Specify the C compiler to use to build libdfp and test cases.
CXX
[OPTIONAL: Picked up from $PATH if not specified.]
Specify the C++ compiler to use for the Libdfp C++ compatibility
tests cases.
CFLAGS="-m64 -O2 -g"
Since the default bitness of the compiler's generated binaries
varies between Linux distros, and on some architectures the Kernel
has a different bitness than the default user env it is recommended
that the -m[31|32|64] flags be passed.
These should accompany sympathetic --build switch
described below, e.g.
powerpc-linux-gnu for -m32
powerpc64-linux-gnu for -m64
For System Z (s390), depending on the cpu, Libdfp's configure.ac
will append a -mzarch flag onto CFLAGS automatically. This is a
special flag required to enable hardware DFP on some System Z cpus.
ASFLAGS
Libdfp's Makefile.in will pull -g or -m[31|32|64] into ASFLAGS if
it is specified in CFLAGS. If you need anything else, pass it in
here and it'll be added.
CXXFLAGS
[Only needed for the C++ compatibility test suite.] This should
generally match the CFLAGS (for the most part).
CPPFLAGS
Use this to pass specific flags to the C Preprocessor.
OBJDUMP
[OPTIONAL: Picked up from $PATH if not specified.]
Specify the objdump binary to use to generate the debug scripts.
LDD
[OPTIONAL: Picked up from $PATH if not specified.]
Specify the ldd to use to generate the debug scripts.
GDB
[OPTIONAL: Picked up from $PATH if not specified.]
Specify the gdb to use to debug the test cases.
Libdfp's default configure will be based on whatever bitness the user
environment is.
In order to build 32-bit libdfp you can pass the following switch:
--build=powerpc-linux-gnu
In order to build 64-bit libdfp you can pass the following switch:
--build=powerpc64-linux-gnu
--prefix=/opt/foo
[OPTIONAL]
Override the default system prefix, e.g. if you want to install into
/opt/ for some reason specify: --prefix=/opt/libdfp/.
--libdir=/usr/lib64
[REQUIRED if you want to install 64-bit libs into lib64/]
[OPTIONAL]
Override the default '<foo>/lib' library path on installation.
If you've already used --prefix=/opt/foo and you need t install a
64-bit libdfp into lib64/ then you need:
--prefix=/opt/foo --libdir=/opt/foo/lib64/
In otherwords, libdir REPLACES the path "<prefix>/lib" on
installation it doesn't concatenate onto "<prefix>"
--with-glibc-headers=/home/$USER/stage_libdfp/glibc-2.10-headers
[REQUIRED if your toolchain has GLIBC version less than 2.10]
--with-glibc-build=/home/$USER/stage_glibc/build/glibc64_power6/
[OPTIONAL]
If you want to run make check but your system GLIBC isn't version
2.10 you need to pass the location of a temporary GLIBC build-dir
(not install dir) where that GLIBC meets or exceeds version 2.10.
Not passing this switch tells the make check system to simply use
the system GLIBC.
WARNING: Make sure you link to a GLIBC build that supports the same
configure options as how you're configuring libdfp, e.g. if you're
configuring for 'power6' 64-bit, make sure that the GLIBC build you
link against is a 64-bit. It doesn't have to be tuned for power6
but it should be able to execute properly.
--with-cpu={power5|power6|power7|<etc>}
[OPTIONAL]
Use this if you want the compiler to optimize the generated code
for a particular processor. This also causes the libdfp build
infrastructure to choose architecture specific overrides from the
sysdeps tree.
For most scenarios, running configure without any extra parameters will do the
right thing, e.g:
../libdfp/configure | tee _configure
Here are some more complicated configurations of libdfp linking an
alternate GLIBC:
64-bit PowerPC (soft-dfp) using the libdecnumber backend and dpd encoding:
CC=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CFLAGS="-m64 -O2 -g" \
CXX=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CXXFLAGS="-m64 -O2 -g" \
~/eglibc/eglibc/libdfp/trunk/configure \
--libdir=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-glibc-headers=~/ppc64-tc-utils/trunk/libdfp/include-2.10/ \
--build=powerpc64-linux-gnu \
--with-glibc-build=~/glibc-2.11/build/glibc64_power5 \
2>&1 | tee _configure64_power5
64-bit PowerPC POWER6 (hard-dfp) using libdecnumber backend and dpd
encoding: We only need the --with-cpu=power6 flag for power6 support and
hardware-dfp:
CC=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CFLAGS="-m64 -O2 -g" \
CXX=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CXXFLAGS="-m64 -O2 -g" \
~/eglibc/eglibc/libdfp/trunk/configure \
--libdir=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-glibc-headers=~/ppc64-tc-utils/trunk/libdfp/include-2.10/ \
--build=powerpc64-linux-gnu \
--with-glibc-build=~/glibc-2.11/build/glibc64_power6 \
--with-cpu=power6 2>&1 | tee _configure64_power6
64-bit PowerPC POWER7 (hard-dfp) using libdecnumber backend and dpd
encoding: We only need the --with-cpu=power7 flag for power7 support and
hardware-dfp:
CC=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CFLAGS="-m64 -O2 -g" \
CXX=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CXXFLAGS="-m64 -O2 -g" \
~/eglibc/eglibc/libdfp/trunk/configure \
--libdir=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-glibc-headers=~/ppc64-tc-utils/trunk/libdfp/include-2.10/ \
--build=powerpc64-linux-gnu \
--with-glibc-build=~/glibc-2.11/build/glibc64_power7 \
--with-cpu=power7 2>&1 | tee _configure64_power7
32-bit PowerPC (soft-dfp) using the libdecnumber backend and dpd encoding:
CC=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CFLAGS="-m32 -O2 -g" \
CXX=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CXXFLAGS="-m32 -O2 -g" \
~/eglibc/eglibc/libdfp/trunk/configure \
--with-glibc-headers=~/ppc64-tc-utils/trunk/libdfp/include-2.10/ \
--build=powerpc-linux-gnu \
--with-glibc-build=~/glibc-2.11/build/glibc32_power5 \
2>&1 | tee _configure32_power5
Or 32-bit POWER6 (hard-dfp):
CC=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CFLAGS="-m32 -O2 -g" \
CXX=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CXXFLAGS="-m32 -O2 -g" \
~/eglibc/eglibc/libdfp/trunk/configure \
--with-glibc-headers=~/ppc64-tc-utils/trunk/libdfp/include-2.10/ \
--build=powerpc-linux-gnu \
--with-glibc-build=~/glibc-2.11/build/glibc32_power6 \
--with-cpu=power6 2>&1 | tee _configure32_power6
Or 32-bit POWER7 (hard-dfp):
CC=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CFLAGS="-m32 -O2 -g" \
CXX=/opt/at4.0/bin/gcc CXXFLAGS="-m32 -O2 -g" \
~/eglibc/eglibc/libdfp/trunk/configure \
--with-glibc-headers=~/ppc64-tc-utils/trunk/libdfp/include-2.10/ \
--build=powerpc-linux-gnu \
--with-glibc-build=~/glibc-2.11/build/glibc32_power7 \
--with-cpu=power7 2>&1 | tee _configure32_power7
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
6. Source Tree Layout
The Libdfp configure script is responsible for building the search order
that is used by the Make system for selecting files out of the source tree.
The configure script automatically knows how to search for
base_machine (e.g. powerpc)
machine (e.g. powerpc32)
submachine (e.g. power6, power7)
It also recognizes the following special directories when they show up
following any of the previous *machine directories:
fpu
nofpu
dfpu
bits
It hard-searches for the following sysdep directories based upon
configuration settings:
bid
dpd
soft-dfp
And it knows how to find the common files stored in the convenience
directories:
ieee754r
base-math
The top of the search list is the commond libdfp internal header files:
${srcdir}/include.
Anything in these directories should be ABSOLUTELY COMMON since you can't
get a header earlier than in the ${srcdir}/include directory. If you need
to override something in ${srcdir}/include then you may need to move the
headers out of this directory and into the sysdeps tree.
Header files that are used when building libdfp, but also provided by
libdfp and installed in the prefix directory are in the following
directory:
${srcdir}/dfp
The sysdeps tree is searched and relevant directory depth takes
precedence.
${srcdir}/include [internal libdfp headers]
${srcdir}/libdecnumber/dpd [libdecnumber headers]
${srcdir}/libdecnumber/bid [libdecnumber headers]
${srcdir}/libbid/? [libbid headers]
[MACHINE/SUBMACHINE]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/fpu [platform directories]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/fpu [platform directories]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power6/fpu [platform directories]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power6/
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/
[BASE_MACHINE/[FPU|NOFPU|BITS]]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/fpu
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/bits
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu/bits
[BASE_MACHINE]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/powerpc/
${srcdir}/sysdeps/i386/
[ENCODING]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/dpd [dpd specific implementations]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/bid [bid specific implementations]
[SOFT-DFP ENCODING OVERRIDES[DPD|BID]]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/soft-dfp/dpd [soft-dfp dpd arithmetic, conversion, and comparison fns]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/soft-dfp/bid [soft-dfp bid arithmetic, conversion, and comparison fns]
${srcdir}/sysdeps/soft-dfp [soft-dfp arithmetic, conversion, and comparison fns]
${srcdir}/dfp [headers files that will be installed. These follow the
sysdep overrides so that sysdeps override directories show up
before the install headers in #include_next <header>.
${srcdir}/ieee754r [ISO C Draft TR functions]
${srcdir}/base-math [Arithmetic, Conversion, and Comparison Routines.]
${srcdir}/[common libdfp framework code & common headers for the backends.]
Out of Tree Sources
${srcdir}/libdecnumber [third-party GCC sources]
${srcdir}/libbid [third-party libBID sources]
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7. Make Rules
make [all (default)]
DEPENDENCIES:
GLIBC headers: The location of the companion GLIBC 2.10 (or
greater) headers as passed to configure using the
--with-glibc-headers switch.
make check
DEPENDENCIES:
GLIBC build: The location of a companion GLIBC 2.10 (or
greater) build (prior to make install) that is to be linked
against during the make check run. This is required because
the printf-hooks feature that is necessary for printing
_Decimal[32|64|128] numbers is only in GLIBC 2.10 and later.
This isn't necessary if the system GLIBC is version 2.10 or
later. The path to the build was passed to configure using
the --with-glibc-build switch.
make install [DESTDIR=<path>]
[DESTDIR] (Optional) : Install to <path>/$prefix. This is used
by libdfp developers and distro builders so that they can build libdfp
and install it to an alternate location in preparation for packaging.
make install-headers [DESTDIR=<path>]
[DESTDIR] (Optional) : Install libdfp headers into
<path>/$prefix/include/dfp. This is used by application or library
developers whose projects depend on libdfp who don't want to install
libdfp proper or may not have permission to do so.
make clean
[TODO] make distclean
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8. Adding New Functions (API changes) (TODO)
Libdfp versioning uses the following convention:
major.minor.revision
New functions must ALWAYS be added to the next revision number of the library.
For instance, if the maintainer has designated the current release at 1.0.8
new function should be added to 1.0.9. Then, when the maintainer increments
the library to 1.0.9 the new functions will become available.
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Appendices
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A. History
Libdfp was designed by Ryan S. Arnold (IBM), Janis Johnson (IBM), and Steven
J. Munroe (IBM) in 2006.
Libdfp was originally written as a GLIBC add-on by Ryan S. Arnold
<rsa@us.ibm.com> and Joseph Kerian <jkerian@us.ibm.com> in 2006 and
contributed to the Free Software Foundation by IBM in 2007.
Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com> provided the initial versions of the
arithmetic, conversion, and comparison routines.
The libdecnumber library was originaly contributed to GCC by IBM and written
by Mike Cowlishaw. Its inclusion into GCC was negotiated in 2005/2006 and it
was pulled into Libdfp as a utility library shortly thereafter.
GLIBC proper declined to include Libdfp upstream on the grounds that
ratification of the DFP technical report had not taken place so...
Libdfp was ported to EGLIBC by Pete Eberlein <eberlein@us.ibm.com> in 2007.
System 390 support was added by Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@de.ibm.com>
starting in 2008.
Ryan S. Arnold (with the help of Andreas Krebbel) ported Libdfp into a
stand-alone library in 2009.
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B. Acknowledgements
Thanks to Ulrich Drepper and the GLIBC folks since we used much of the GLIBC
macro black magic, math routines, string-to-float conversions, and printf_fp
code as a basis for the corresponding decimal floating point forms.
Thanks to Roland McGrath for his wild Makefile foo in GLIBC. Ryan used a lot
of that as inspiration for Libdfp's Makefiles.
Thanks to everyone at IBM (past and present) who worked on Libdfp.
Thanks to Jeff Bailey for helping Ryan grok Autoconf and GNU Make. His
examples on SUFFIXES rules were invaluable in getting the stand-alone Libdfp
make files into a functional form.
Thanks to EGLIBC (eglibc.org) for hosting Libdfp when it was a GLIBC add-on
and for hosting the stand alone version as well.
Thanks to Michael Matz (SuSE) for help getting the initial packaging for
Libdfp straightened out.
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