[cxx-abi-dev] Mangling of ISO/IEC TR 18037 fixed-point types?

[Lawrence Crowl]

On 12/4/08, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat.com> wrote:
> GCC supports fixed-point arithmetic along the lines of the above
> standard, but there's currently no mangling specified in the
> ABI. Anyone want to propose one?  Do other compilers have support
> for these types?

As a personal opinion, the ISO/IEC TR 18037 specifies data types
specific to the current digital signal processors.  As such it is
not general enough for inclusion into C or C++.  Any support for
those types would be counter-productive in that it might inhibit
development of more general fixed-point arithmetic.

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Lawrence Crowl