Charles Mills wrote:
I don't seem to be able to declare a D variable in C++.
Nope - _Decimal types are not support in C++ (it would mess up
the type hiearchy too much which gets into name mangling issues, etc...)
So - you can only declare _Decimal values in C.
Systems/C doesn't support %D(*,*) - you have to explicity specify
the precision so the printf() var-args code can retrieve the proper number
of bytes from the argument list. Although - now that you point it out,
I don't see a reason why it couldnt' support that... you would need to
do something like:
printf("%D(*,*)\n", digitsof(d), precisionof(d), d);
Seems like that would be a really good idea!
The description of %D in the IBM XLC manuals simply says:
%D(n,p) Fixed-point value consisting of a series of one or more decimal
digits possibly containing a decimal-point.
I doesn't seem to provide for D(*,*) - so - from the documentation, it
doesn't
look like IBM supports it either.
- Dave Rivers -
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