[cfe-users] _Decimal128 on PowerPC

[Richard Smith via cfe-users]

On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 00:09, Jeffrey Walton via cfe-users <
cfe-users at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm testing Steven Munroe's pveclib library
> (https://github.com/munroesj52/pveclib). It is testing OK with GCC,
> but I am having trouble with Clang.
>
> I've been able to test up to Clang 9 and with/without -std=c11, but I
> keep encountering two errors:
>
>     decpowof2.c:30:7: error: GNU decimal type extension not supported
>         const _Decimal128 decpowof2 [] = {
>
>     decpowof2.c:31:8: error: invalid suffix 'DL' on floating constant
>         1.0E+0DL,       /* 2**0 */
>
> I believe _Decimal128 and the DL suffixes are part of ISO/IEC TS 18661
> or N2341 (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2341.pdf).
>

Clang does not implement ISO/IEC TS 18661-2 (decimal floating point).

It seems like a bug that our diagnostic claims this is a GNU extension,
since it's an ISO Technical Specification, but otherwise the diagnostic is
accurate. =(

We'd accept patches if you felt motivated to contribute an implementation,
but a high-quality implementation would likely be a fair amount of work
(LLVM has no support for decimal floating-point types yet).

I think I am missing the right combination of Clang compiler and options.
>
> What compiler or options are needed for Clang?
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