A Unified Decimal Floating-Point Architecture for the Support of High-Level Languages

Abstract

This paper summarizes a proposal for a decimal floating-point arithmetic interface for the support of high-level languages, consisting both of the arithmetic operations observed by application programs and facilities to produce subroutine libraries accessible from these programs. What is not included here are the detailed motivations, examinations of alternatives, and implementation considerations which will appear in the full work. © 1977, ACM. All rights reserved.