Re: [fpc-devel] General Decimal Arithmetic

2008-01-28 Thread john
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:53:26PM +0100, mm wrote: > Vincent Snijders a écrit : >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: >>>2. Are these operations presently available within Free Pascal? >> >> AFAIK, not distributed and installed by default with Free Pascal. There >> are a number of arbitrary precision

Re: [fpc-devel] General Decimal Arithmetic

2008-01-28 Thread mm
Vincent Snijders a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: 2. Are these operations presently available within Free Pascal? AFAIK, not distributed and installed by default with Free Pascal. There are a number of arbitrary precision libs around, for example bigint from: http://www.polarhome.com/

Re: [fpc-devel] General Decimal Arithmetic

2008-01-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: 2. Are these operations presently available within Free Pascal? AFAIK, not distributed and installed by default with Free Pascal. There are a number of arbitrary precision libs around, for example bigint from: http://www.polarhome.com/~franco Vincent ___

Re: [fpc-devel] General Decimal Arithmetic

2008-01-28 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Did you have a look at the fmtbcd unit of fpc? I've no idea if it is conformant with IEEE 854-1987 though. ___ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

[fpc-devel] General Decimal Arithmetic

2008-01-28 Thread john
Hi List, About 18 months ago I started on writng a General Decimal Arithmetic unit/library based on Mike Colishaw's work conforming to IEEE 854-1987 standard. Sickness prevented me from completing this work and I am now ready to give it another try. Before