On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 20:07, Florian Klaempfl <[email protected]> wrote: >> 3) Finally, and relevantly for this list, >> should something like this be included into FPC?
> Imo in principle, yes, but: > - simpler than NX library in the sense of less functionally, putting > something like NX library in FPC is too much imo. > - FPC rtl compatible license Agree. But perhaps NX author would be willing to produce 'NX lite' library? > - cross platform This should not be a problem for such code. > BTW: Maybe such an effort can improve fmtbcd as well. Or is it > fundamentally flawed? Wow, so FPC does contain an arbitrary-precision arithmetic unit after all. No wonder I did not find it under such obscure name. I do not think it is "fundamentally" flawed, just, as noted in the comments, suitable more for compiler debugging then for it's primary purpose. It can be improved by removing 50% of code and 99% of ifdefs, but I guess it is easier to just rewrite it. -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
