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+<h4 class="subsubsection">15.4.1.8 Decimal Floating Point format</h4>
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+<p><small>GDB</small> can examine, set and perform computations with numbers in
+decimal floating point format, which in the C language correspond to the
+<code>_Decimal32</code>, <code>_Decimal64</code> and <code>_Decimal128</code> types as
+specified by the extension to support decimal floating-point arithmetic.
+</p>
+<p>There are two encodings in use, depending on the architecture: BID (Binary
+Integer Decimal) for x86 and x86-64, and DPD (Densely Packed Decimal) for
+PowerPC and S/390. <small>GDB</small> will use the appropriate encoding for the
+configured target.
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+<p>Because of a limitation in <samp>libdecnumber</samp>, the library used by <small>GDB</small>
+to manipulate decimal floating point numbers, it is not possible to convert
+(using a cast, for example) integers wider than 32-bit to decimal float.
+</p>
+<p>In addition, in order to imitate <small>GDB</small>&rsquo;s behaviour with binary floating
+point computations, error checking in decimal float operations ignores
+underflow, overflow and divide by zero exceptions.
+</p>
+<p>In the PowerPC architecture, <small>GDB</small> provides a set of pseudo-registers
+to inspect <code>_Decimal128</code> values stored in floating point registers.
+See <a href="PowerPC.html#PowerPC">PowerPC</a> for more details.
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