[LLVMdev] Fixed-point arithmetic

Eli Friedman eli.friedman at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 04:05:02 PST 2012


On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Ivan Llopard <ivanllopard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any ongoing work in LLVM/Clang to support fixed-point
> arithmetic as described in ISO/IEC TR 18037 ?

No.

> It seems that gcc has support for it since 2007 and it would be useful
> for us to add such support.
> Just to get an idea if we decide to work on this, how long would it take
> to get it implemented ?

It's probably pretty; I don't know precisely what is involved, though.

-Eli



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