Re: [patch] tic4x support in gas

["Svein E. Seldal" <Svein dot Seldal at solidas dot com>]

Alan Modra wrote:
> I can't say I like it very much.  Why don't you use the standard
> gas floating point syntax?  eg. 0f3.14159, 0d3.14159 or 0e3.14159
For one, to make other (thirdparty) vendor asm code compile on gas. E.g. 
to use the syntax from the vendor's programming manual. Secondly, 
c4x-gcc uses this syntax as of this day. If the instructions (only) 
allows gas flonums, then gcc have to be changed as well (which right now 
is out of my league/timespan).

But I agree on a general basis. It would really make things more 
compatible/consistent. However, as this patch is addressing a syntax 
which is documented in the vendor's menuals, I am a little bit relucant 
in blindly enforcing the "gas-way". (The documentation is priceless, and 
it has been a goal for this target to be compatible with the vendors 
original syntax.)


Regards,
Svein