0.3 compatibility about decfp.jl HOT 5 CLOSED

Got it at least loading with 0.3, but have some kind of weird corruption that I can't figure out in 0.3:

julia> using DecFP
julia> d"1.0"
+140734667966048E-398
julia> reinterpret(Uint64, d"1.0")
0x0000000000000000

Something has apparently changed with how bitstype is handled? (cc: @vtjnash)

I'm not sure it's actually worth it. I can just make this package require Julia 0.4.

from decfp.jl.

it's quite possible the ccall fixes changed the calling convention for Dec128, depending on what the system you are on

from decfp.jl.

But why would this affect Dec64 (on 64-bit MacOS X)?

from decfp.jl.

nvm, it shouldn't i just skimmed the code too quickly.

unrelated note: cglobal (like ccall) is a compile-time intrinsic, so it is zero-cost to copy it to each usage site (perhaps in macro form @flags to reduce typing?) instead of putting it in __init__

from decfp.jl.

Just close, since "it only works with 0.4, which is not really acceptable" is just no longer true..

from decfp.jl.