On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:07 AM, James K Beard <[email protected]> wrote: > A quick glance through the document seems to tell us that the decimal > arithmetic will incorporate checks to ensure that any rounding in binary > floating point does not compromise the accuracy of the final decimal > result. That’s pretty much what I was suggesting in my message of March 26 > below. The JTC1 Committee is apparently considering putting it in the > standard. This could be a very good thing for people porting code from > COBOL, and useful for new applications in environments previously restricted > to COBOL such as the banking and accounting industries.
I'm being a little OT here, but I'm curious.. does that mean that COBOL was a language that gave very high accuracy compared to C of the day? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
