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Re: [rfc/patch] extract/store typed floating ()
- To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at science dot uva dot nl>
- Subject: Re: [rfc/patch] extract/store typed floating ()
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:20:58 -0400
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3BAA6F4A.1000508@cygnus.com> <s3i7kuqc9u5.fsf@soliton.wins.uva.nl>
> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This patch introduces two new functions:
>>
>> extract_typed_floating()
>> store_typed_floating()
>>
>> The new functions take a ``struct type'' that exactly describes the
>> floating point number to be extracted / stored.
>
>
> The new names sound a lot better than the extract_doublest() you
> proposed earlier. I'd say, go for it [:-)] .
It is in. (Some times I think the hardest thing about hacking on GDB is
comming up with reasonable names for files and functional interfaces :-)
Andrew