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Re: GASP patch

From: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:36:51 +1100 (EST)
Subject: Re: GASP patch
References: <15458.65422.463169.82395@scooby.brisbane.redhat.com>

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com> writes:

  Ben> I would like to submit the following patch, which corrects GASP's
  Ben> handling of floating point constants (`flonums' in GAS terminology).
  Ben> Previously, a floating point constant such as 12.12 would be converted
  Ben> from the currently specified base into decimal.  Worse, the fractional
  Ben> component of a float would be scanned as a separate integer, leading
  Ben> to strange transformations such as 12.001 => 12.1.

  Ben> This patch clarifies GASP's position on flonums and restricts their
  Ben> intepretation to base 10.  Thinking that this is probably newsworthy,
  Ben> I've added a note to the NEWS file.  New test case files are MIME
  Ben> attached at the end of this message.

  Ben> Okay to commit?

I've not received any feedback on this patch (other than a one-liner
fix that Alan Modra pointed out).  Okay to commit?

Ben

Follow-Ups:
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