Re: [PATCH, RFA]: Revamp NaN detection & discussion

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

> I also have an itch about floatformat.{ch} and its functions.  I'd
> rather put all floatformat_* functions in there rather than in
> defs.h/utils.c.  But since it's part of libiberty that's a bit of a
> pain.  Is this stuff really used anywhere outside GDB?  If not,
> perhaps we could claim it back.  Otherwise I'd like to add a
> gdb_floatformat.{ch} and put all the floatformat stuff there.

Hmm, looked in the TODO file? (I'll append all the comments).
Given that no one appears to be using floatformat (unless GCC is?) I
think we can ``claim it back''.

At a more idealistic level we could instead use sim/common/sim-fpu.[ch]
and implement GDB's target floating point using that.  I can but dream
:-)

	Andrew

PS: The harris mess is sorted out - harris is obsolete.

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Rationalize use of floatformat_unknown in GDB sources.

Instead of defaulting to floatformat_unknown, should hosts/targets
specify the value explicitly?

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-05/msg00447.html

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Add a ``name'' member to include/floatformat.h:struct floatformat.
Print that name in gdbarch.c.

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Sort out the harris mess in include/floatformat.h (it hardwires two
different floating point formats).

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See of the GDB local floatformat_do_doublest() and libiberty's
floatformat_to_double (which was once GDB's ...) can be merged some
how.

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Deprecate current use of ``floatformat_unknown''.

Require all targets to explicitly provide their float format instead
of defaulting to floatformat unknown.  Doing the latter leads to nasty
bugs.

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-05/msg00447.html

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Rationalize floatformat_to_double() vs floatformat_to_doublest().

Looks like GDB migrated floatformat_to_double() to libiberty but then
turned around and created a ..._to_doublest() the latter containing
several bug fixes.

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-05/msg00472.html

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Move floatformat_ia64_ext to libiberty/include floatformat.[ch].

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-05/msg00466.html

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