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Re: RFA: Support infinity, NaN, and denormalized numbers in floatformat.c
- From: Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:35:11 +0100
- Subject: Re: RFA: Support infinity, NaN, and denormalized numbers in floatformat.c
- References: <20031203181245.3896.qmail@gossamer.airs.com>
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:12:45PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Here is a patch to improve the support for infinity, NaN, and
> denormalized numbers in floatformat.c. It's not clear how to handle
> these for non-IEEE formats. But the old code did entirely the wrong
> thing even when using IEEE formats, which are used by pretty much all
> modern processors. So I think we might as well do the right thing
> here.
Sorry if this is not related - but what are you going to do
with the demangling of floating point values? I sensed a strong
opposition against the IEEE decoding - so I removed my IEEE print
routine again :/.
But if your demangler will demangle everything as IEEE regardless
then I suppose I might as well do the same.
Thanks,
--
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>