Floating point types in target descriptions

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Fri Apr 13 13:53:00 GMT 2007


On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:48:09PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> The patch below adds ieee_single and ieee_double predefined types for use in 
> XML target descriptions.  These are needed to describe vector types with 
> floating point elements.
> 
> I considered using "float"/"double" and/or "float32"/"float64". However the 
> former are ambiguous with the "float" register type, and the latter don't 
> really tell you want you're getting. If targets need non-ieee types they can 
> add them like arm_fpa_ext.
> 
> Ok?

Thanks, this is OK.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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