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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html">http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html</a> says “<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">clang does not support decimal floating point types (</span><span class="pre"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#333333;background:#E2E2E2">_Decimal32</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">
and friends) or fixed-point types (</span><span class="pre"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#333333;background:#E2E2E2">_Fract</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"> and friends); nobody has expressed interest
in these features yet, so it’s hard to say when they will be implemented</span>”.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Synopsys is interested in the fixed point data types and is starting to add extensions for it. Is this an extension the community would want in the clang/llvm tree?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#273D49">See section 4:<br>
<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1275.pdf">http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1275.pdf</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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