sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) (04/14/91)
Are there any BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) / Packed Decimal arithmetic libraries out there ? Would prefer for Fortran but C or assembler is OK. Buyware/Shareware/Freeware all acceptable. Jeff Sicherman
resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick) (04/23/91)
In article <1991Apr16.103655.1851@isc.rit.edu> ecldco@isc.rit.edu (E.C. Loyd) writes: >In article <1991Apr13.211105.24615@beach.csulb.edu> sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes: >> >> Are there any BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) / Packed Decimal arithmetic >>libraries out there ? Would prefer for Fortran but C or assembler is >>OK. Buyware/Shareware/Freeware all acceptable. >> >>Jeff Sicherman > >If you use Turbo C++, and if you're in to C++ (as opposed to C), they have >BCD libraries available for their Turbo C++ package. Of course, if you >don't care to use C++ (object oriented language) then this won't help you. Why not? I use Borland C's BCD class without using other C++ features. The code looks and acts like C. The only real difference from my perspective is the mangled names in the .OBJ files. Cheers! Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- resnicks@netcom.com, steve@camphq, IFNA: 1:143/105.0, USNail: 530 Lawrence Expressway, Suite 374 Sunnyvale, Ca 94086 - In real life: Steve Resnick. Flames, grammar and spelling errors >/dev/null 0x2b |~ 0x2b, THAT is the question. The Asylum OS/2 BBS - (408)263-8017 12/2400,8,1 - Running Maximus CBCS 1.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------