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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfc] Add some more floatformat types ....
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B7D507D.4010801@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1010817163956.ZM4083@ocotillo.lan>

> 
> Yes.  But I'd rephrase it as...  The IA-64 reads/writes 16 bytes when
> loading/storing the 82-bit floating point register format.

Ok.

> The fly in the ointment is that the IA-64 also has a quad precision
> real type whose width is 128 bits (1 bit sign, 15 bit exponent,
> 112 bit significand).

Ulgh!  So we now need two IA-64 floating point types, any suggestion for 
a name? Does:

	ia64_ext
	ia64_quad

look ok (and please no one look at the VAX :-).

	Andrew




  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-17 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3B76164B.9060908@cygnus.com>
2001-08-16 11:36 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-16 16:55   ` Mark Kettenis
2001-08-16 20:10     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-17  6:08       ` Mark Kettenis
2001-08-17  9:13         ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-17  9:40           ` Kevin Buettner
2001-08-17 10:12             ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-08-17 11:12               ` Kevin Buettner
2001-08-17 12:19                 ` Mark Kettenis
2001-08-17 12:34                   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-17 12:51                     ` Kevin Buettner
2001-08-18 12:04                       ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-17 12:30                 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-17 12:32           ` Mark Kettenis
2001-08-21  6:41 ` Fernando Nasser

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