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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC]: remove inconsistency in printcmd.c: print_scalar_formatted
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119162740.3988769d@saguaro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040119231853.GA6132@nevyn.them.org>

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:18:53 -0500
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:57:04PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > >Ping.  Could we continue discussing this topic and come to some form of 
> > >resolution?  The new additional ia64 test failures are annoying.
> > 
> > I thought there was basic agreement with your change (It sux less then 
> > the current behavior :-).  Yes, change it.  That way, behavior such as:
> > 	(gdb) print/x 1.0
> > will at least be more consistent.
> 
> Yeah, I agree, and re-reading Kevin's message I don't think he objects.

Right, no objection from me, but...

> How do you all feel about a more sweeping change instead:
> (gdb) set $doublevar = 2.0
> (gdb) print doublevar
> $1 = 2.0
> (gdb) print (int) doublevar
> $1 = 2
> (gdb) print/x (int) doublevar
> $1 = 2
> (gdb) print/x doublevar
> $1 = 0xc000000000000000

...I like this better.

Kevin


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-19 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-12 20:36 Jeff Johnston
2003-12-12 22:17 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-12-12 23:05   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-13  0:55   ` J. Johnston
2004-01-19 22:23     ` J. Johnston
2004-01-19 22:57       ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-19 23:18         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-19 23:27           ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2004-01-20  0:41           ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-20  1:22             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
     [not found]               ` <400C8CC0.3040706@gnu.org>
2004-01-20  5:48                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-20  6:55                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-20 14:52                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-20 19:15                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-20 19:33                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-20 20:32                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-20 16:50                     ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-20 19:10                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-20 21:29                   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-19 22:53                     ` Jeff Johnston

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