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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ken Werner <ken@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch, libiberty, gdb] IEEE 754 half floating-point format
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101215050700.GY2596@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201012141610.oBEGA5r2029793@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>

> > My only comment regarding this part of the patch is that "half_bit"
> > and "half_format" isn't very intuitive. Perhaps that's more obvious
> > to someone who programs in OpenCL if "half" is a type name? For
> > the other arch routines, the routine name makes it clear that it's
> > about floating point types, because it contains a name that is
> > clearly associated to floats (float, double, long double).  What
> > about using "half_float_bit" and "half_float_format"?
[...]
> Of course, we could still change the name of the gdbarch callbacks
> if you think this would be more intuitive.

No one really commented on it, so it's probably not worth our trouble,
I think.

-- 
Joel


      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-15  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-02 16:59 Ken Werner
2010-07-02 17:11 ` Ken Werner
2010-07-02 18:47   ` DJ Delorie
2010-07-06 13:06 ` Ulrich Weigand
2010-11-18 17:44 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-14 16:10   ` Ulrich Weigand
2010-12-15  5:07     ` Joel Brobecker [this message]

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