Re: [RFC]: remove inconsistency in printcmd.c: print_scalar_formatted

Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-20T20:32:01Z

> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:33:49 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
>
> I'll respond to these all together, since there's really the same
> answer to all of them: I think there is a general unimplemented feature
> here, not just the specific "show me the hex representation of this
> double". Examples I have in mind:
> - Displaying an integer to a sequence of characters
> p/s 0x6263 -> "ab"
> - Displaying a double-precision value in hex:
> p/x 2.0 -> 0x4000000000000000
> - Displaying a double-precision value in binary:
> p/t 2.0 -> 01000000000000000000000000000000
> 00000000000000000000000000000000
> - Displaying an integer (hex or otherwise) value as a double
> p/f 0x4000000000000000LL -> 2.0
> - Displaying an integer (hex or otherwise) value as a long
> double - this one is trickier, since we don't normally have an
> integer type that is big enough, but if we did:
> p/gf 0x400000000000000000000000LLL -> 2.0

Sounds like there's a place for a new command, since what we want here
is a command that would interpret a value as some different type. Do
you agree?