From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14275 invoked by alias); 3 May 2004 22:34:15 -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 14261 invoked from network); 3 May 2004 22:34:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 May 2004 22:34:15 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i43MYEkI027031; Mon, 3 May 2004 18:34:14 -0400 Received: from post-office.corp.redhat.com (post-office.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.227]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i43MYEv18876; Mon, 3 May 2004 18:34:14 -0400 Received: from greed.delorie.com (dj.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.0.222]) by post-office.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i43MYDH04271; Mon, 3 May 2004 18:34:13 -0400 Received: from greed.delorie.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greed.delorie.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i43MYC2g022014; Mon, 3 May 2004 18:34:12 -0400 Received: (from dj@localhost) by greed.delorie.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i43MYC1W022010; Mon, 3 May 2004 18:34:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 22:34:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200405032234.i43MYC1W022010@greed.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: zack@codesourcery.com CC: cagney@gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <87wu3t9mca.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (message from Zack Weinberg on Mon, 03 May 2004 15:28:53 -0700) Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Add host's floatformat References: <40939DD4.3000706@gnu.org> <4093DC36.9040304@gnu.org> <200405020312.i423CSlH008732@greed.delorie.com> <4096996E.9080700@gnu.org> <200405032210.i43MArI1021688@greed.delorie.com> <87wu3t9mca.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00075.txt.bz2 > Really, I don't see why this is better than a hardwired table > mapping CPU to floating point format. Because most FPUs are IEEE, so except for the ones that aren't, it will auto-detect the FPU type. Having a table means that CPUs default to "broken", rather than defaulting to "probably works". It also means we don't have to keep tweaking the table as people change their minds about CPU naming schemes.