[Cfp-interest 1966] DFP and static initialization

[Fred J. Tydeman]

A question for compiler writers that support decimal floating point (DFP).

What value and quantum exponent do you give a static decimal floating
point variable that gets the default initialization?

6.7.9 Initialization, paragraph 10, has (in part):
  If an object that has static or thread storage duration is not
  initialized explicitly, then: ... 
  if it has arithmetic type, it is initialized to (positive or unsigned) zero;


static _Decimal64 x;    /* zero with what exponent? */



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