From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,7cda96e9413b780c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,7cda96e9413b780c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7cda96e9413b780c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-12 10:23:55 PST Message-ID: <3D2F0FAB.3000108@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Floating Decimal Package/Library? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:19:39 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1026494378 198.96.47.195 (Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:19:38 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:19:38 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27019 comp.lang.c:138178 comp.lang.c++:158868 Date: 2002-07-12T13:19:39-04:00 List-Id: Since the PostgreSQL group have expressed no interest in supporting floating decimal routines for the client, I wonder if anyone in these groups know of an Ada package (preferred), or C/C++ library that supports arbitrary prcecision floating decimal values. I could hack the PostgreSQL back end C routines, but this may not be practical. The GNU GMP library comes close, but its floating support library uses binary arithmetic (this is a no-no for financial work). I've suggested that they augment GMP with this support, but I'm not sure what response I'll get to the request. I am looking for a PD/GPL/Open Sourced work. Thanks, Warren.