[issue8786] Add support for IEEE 754 contexts to decimal module.

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Thinking ahead a bit:  at some point we might well also want functions to pack and unpack these IEEE formats into byte sequences, using the bit representations described in the standard.

A natural place for those functions would be as methods on a Context object;  perhaps IEEEContext should be a subclass of Context?  (OTOH, the struct module is another possible place for such functionality.)

I'll think about this.

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