1libmpdec is a complete C implementation of the General Decimal Arithmetic 2Specification. The specification, written by Mike Cowlishaw from IBM, 3defines a general purpose arbitrary precision data type together with 4rigorously specified functions and rounding behavior. As described in the 5scope section of the specification, libmpdec will - with minor restrictions - 6also conform to the IEEE 754-2008 Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic, 7provided that the appropriate context parameters are set. 8 9libmpdec++ is a complete C++ implementation of the General Decimal Arithmetic 10Specification. libmpdec++ is mostly a header library around libmpdec. The 11library frees users from manual memory management and has an easy API with 12inline operators. libmpdec++ has a thread local context for inline operators 13and other functions that use the implicit context. 14