[LLVMdev] Fixed-point arithmetic

[Sergey Yakoushkin]

Hi,

Is there anyone else interested in fixed-point arithmetic support in
clang/llvm?

Regards,
Sergey


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Sergey Yakoushkin <
sergey.yakoushkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Were there any further discussion or progress with the fixed point support
> (ISO/IEC TR 18037) in the meantime?
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1275.pdf
>
> Particularly:
> 1) named address space type qualifiers (can be nested)
> 2) fract/accum data types
> 3) sat (saturation) type specifier
>
> Regards,
> Sergey Yakushkin
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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