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.

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