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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:27:00 -0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for VAX floating-point types
From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow@false.org>
Cc: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:09:25AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> OK, I admit it, all this work on VAX is pointless ... but fun ;-).
>> And it actually improves the code too ;-).  This patch depends on the
>> libiberty patch I just sent out.  Any objections?  If not I'll check
>> this in next weekend if possible.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Index: ChangeLog
>> from  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
>>
>> 	* doublest.c (floatformat_normalize_byteorder): Handle
>> 	floatformat_vax.
>> 	(convert_doublest_to_floatformat): Use
>> 	floatformat_normalize_byteorder to swap bytes if necessary.
>
> None from me!  Looks fine.  Don't recall what happened to the libiberty
> bits though.

Thanks,

I have been revising the libiberty bits, based on the comments I got.
Didin't find the time yet to finish compiling gdb on the VAX simulator yet.

Mark