An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real Problem

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  • x86 has had BCD support since before I was born. And, as far as I know, when compiling for a platform that's missing a fundamental datatype, it's up to the compiler to add it as a runtime.

    See for example this, a software float for crappy ARM processors.

    https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/16e2427f50c208dfe07d0...

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