[cfe-dev] GCC extensions not implemented yet

[Hal Finkel]

Mark,

Can you explain more about what you have in mind. I suppose that the semantic analysis portions are pretty well defined, but what would this mean in terms of code generation?

 -Hal

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> http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html says “ clang does not
> support decimal floating point types ( _Decimal32 and friends) or
> fixed-point types ( _Fract and friends); nobody has expressed
> interest in these features yet, so it’s hard to say when they will
> be implemented ”.
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> 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?
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> See section 4:
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1275.pdf
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Hal Finkel
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