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Return the native implementation representation of the value of the same size base‐10 floating‐point value stored in Densely Packed 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 DPD format.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdldfp_decimalconvertutil_inteldfp.h>`

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decimal128FromDPD(unsigned char const* buffer);
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