Jakub Jelinek wrote: > The basic DFP support is in libgcc (again, for many years), but > intentionally only in libgcc.a and not in libgcc_s.so.1, because it > would quadruple the size of .text section of that library and add > further more than 2MB in .rodata...
Yikes. I hadn't gotten far enough into it to discover that little tidbit. That certainly represents an additional constraint (as if we didn't have enough already!). > For the printf/scanf etc. support, right now you need libdfp not maintained > as part of GCC (nor glibc). I don't know what the glibc projects plans to > do for _Decimal* support if anything... That's precisely what I'm investigating, although I don't yet have nearly enough strakh to convince anybody that I've got viable answers for the outstanding concerns.
