[patch] tic4x support in gas
Svein E. Seldal
Svein.Seldal@solidas.com
Thu Oct 10 05:05:00 GMT 2002
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
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