Interoperability with platforms which have hardware types?

[mborland]

Some rarer architectures have native decimal floating point units. Can we utilize this in the library instead of using our own software based backend? Access is available through the Compile Farm Project

[mborland]

cfarm120 IBM Power10 does have DPD native as tested with a trivial program

[johnwcowan]

Likewise IBM Z and Fujitsu SPARC machines.