From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA fix conversion of little-byte big-word floats to doublest
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 19:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041204173257.GA13282@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412041725.iB4HPLUo003928@merlin.buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:25:21PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> I've just been thinking.
>
> The current code (for both conversions to and from doublest) tries to work
> by normalizing the word order to match the byte order. This clearly makes
> things quite difficult when the number of words involved is variable.
>
> I think it would be a more tractable problem to change all this around so
> that the byte order is normalized to match the word order. This can be
> done by simply repeating a word-normalization step for each word in the
> value.
>
> Thoughts?
That sounds good to me - much simpler.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-04 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-04 15:27 Richard Earnshaw
2004-12-04 15:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-12-04 16:01 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-12-04 16:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-12-04 17:23 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-12-04 17:33 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-12-04 19:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-12-05 1:51 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-12-05 15:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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