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From: sdw@hpsad.HP.COM (Steve Warwick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: numerical C vs C++
Message-ID: <1920001@hpsad.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 91 16:15:11 GMT
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
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I just got done talking to a vendor of Digital Signal processors
who mentioned that their company is involved with a group trying
to define something called "numerical C" which defines a set of 
special types and operatiors which are supposedly tuned to 
typical DSP/Vector processing applications. 

 I was troubled by this in that it appears that language constructs
available in C++ provedes syntax which could cover these cases, such
as fractional integer arithmetic, and vectorized expressions.  In
addition, such modules could be supported on non-DSP platforms given a
suitable supprt library.

My question is: are there members of the C++ community aware of this
other standardization effort, and can point out how the two efforts 
are unable to be combined... is there some fundamental weakness in the 
ability of a C++ compiler to optimise for the DSP environment?