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Re: Proposal for `info float' layout
> Keep in mind that GDB is a debugger. We should try to create the
> layout that is most useful for finding bugs. Based on this principle
> I made some decisions:
FWIW, I agree with Mark's principles.
One additional thought: could it be that it's better to put the
floating-point representation of the registers to the left of the hex
representation? In other words, would the following be better?
R7: Valid 1.0000000000000000000 0x00000000000000000000
=>R6: Special +QNaN 0x00000000000000000000
R5: Empty 0x00000000000000000000
R4: Zero -0 0x00000000000000000000
R3: Special 0.0024438394034300000 0x00000000000000000000 Denormal
R2: Empty 0x00000000000000000000
R1: Empty 0x00000000000000000000
R0: Empty 0x00000000000000000000
Since the FP representation is by far the most important one, while
the hex one should be used only as auxiliary info in some special
cases, perhaps this is better?