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Store, into the specified `decimal`, the native implementation representation of the value of the same size base‐10 floating point value represented in Binary Integer Decimal format, at the specified `buffer` address. The behavior is undefined unless `buffer` points to a memory area at least `sizeof(decimal)` in size containing a value in BID format.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdldfp_decimalconvertutil.h>`

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static
void
decimalFromBID(
    xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/Decimal32.adoc[Decimal32]* decimal,
    unsigned char const* buffer);
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