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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-17 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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