From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15010 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2003 18:35:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14954 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2003 18:35:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.alinoe.com) (62.195.88.134) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2003 18:35:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 30197 invoked by uid 500); 3 Dec 2003 18:35:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:35:00 -0000 From: Carlo Wood To: Ian Lance Taylor Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: Support infinity, NaN, and denormalized numbers in floatformat.c Message-ID: <20031203183511.GA30132@alinoe.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ian Lance Taylor , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20031203181245.3896.qmail@gossamer.airs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031203181245.3896.qmail@gossamer.airs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00086.txt.bz2 On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:12:45PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Here is a patch to improve the support for infinity, NaN, and > denormalized numbers in floatformat.c. It's not clear how to handle > these for non-IEEE formats. But the old code did entirely the wrong > thing even when using IEEE formats, which are used by pretty much all > modern processors. So I think we might as well do the right thing > here. Sorry if this is not related - but what are you going to do with the demangling of floating point values? I sensed a strong opposition against the IEEE decoding - so I removed my IEEE print routine again :/. But if your demangler will demangle everything as IEEE regardless then I suppose I might as well do the same. Thanks, -- Carlo Wood