From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] New function to convert floating-point types
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:54:00 -0000
Message-id: <3BDDFA0E.4090205@cygnus.com>
References: <200110282344.f9SNifg21500@delius.kettenis.local> <3BDDBA24.10803@cygnus.com> <200110292343.f9TNh8L17592@delius.kettenis.local>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00367.html

>    Convert to DOUBLEST would just leave the format as-is.  Only when a 
>    conversion was really needed would it be converted.
> 
> Hmm.  I see DOUBLEST as a host-specific thing.  In the ideal case
> target-dependent code wouldn't need DOUBLEST at all.

The expression evaluator (used for "(gdb) print 1.0 + 2.0") is currently 
host dependant (it uses DOUBLEST) but I think it should be target dependant.

enjoy
Andrew