Re: why still use C? [long]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The standard could be changed to accomodate FP-10 without requiring it. 
> I sincerely doubt that the standard would mandate FP-10 without a broad
> concensus among both users and implementors that that was the right
> thing to do.

Note that IEEE/IEC binary floating point has an optional
binding to the C standard, and presumably 754R decimal
floating point could have a similar binding.  The generic
support for decimal floating point could be specified so
that both binary and decimal were specifiable by the
programmer, but could be implemented using the same
representation (for non-IEEE/IEC decimal-f.p. platforms),
much as "int" and "long" have the same representation on
many platforms.
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