MessagePack for D released

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:02:52 +0900, Robert Jacques <sandford at jhu.edu>  
wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:37:56 -0300, Masahiro Nakagawa  
> <repeatedly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:20:58 +0900, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
>> <public at kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:
>>
>>> For systems where real is 64 bits it may be possible to use an 80-bit  
>>> std.numeric.CustomFloat as an intermediate step between the stored  
>>> data and the 64-bit type.
>> I tried std.numeric.CustomFloat:
>> -----
>> alias CustomFloat!(1, 64, 15) RealRep;
>> -----
>> But this code doesn't comile...
>
> CustomFloat currently is currently broken. There are some partial  
> patches (see http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3520), but I  
> don't they will address this issue.
Yeah. CustomFloat uses std.bitmanip.bitfields for internal state, but
bitfields can't deal with large size :(