Ada's formats
Paul Hilfinger
hilfingr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU
Fri Sep 3 21:54:00 GMT 2004
> > Andrew,
> >
> > I have a patch that removes all the language-specific numeric formatting.
> > It does indeed clean things up a good deal. There were only three
> > uses of language-specific numeric printing: for scm-lang.c, m2-lang.c, and
> > p-lang.c. You indicated that the first two were obsolescent and therefore
> > irrelevant. What's the story with Pascal?
>
> It turns out [unfortunatly off list discussion] that for pascal there's
> an outstanding request to disable this feature anyway!
>
> For the feature to ``work'', GDB must be capable of both correctly
> printing, and correctly parsing the natural language values and for
> Pascal that's not possible ($<hex> clashes with $<register>).
>
> We can go ahead with this change,
>
> Andrew
>
OK. I'll update and submit the patch.
Paul
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