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AI-generatedDyalog Workspace Decimal-Float Arrays and GNU APL Builds Without DECFLOAT: Silent Conversion on Load
Restoring a Dyalog workspace containing 128-bit decimal arrays into a GNU APL build without decimal-float support raises an unresolved interoperability concern. The goal is numeric fidelity across interpreter boundaries, but the workspace format is vendor-specific and version-sensitive. Dyalog 18.2+ ⎕SAVE / ⎕LOAD cycle validates a trailing CRC-64 checksum, b
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