From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20822 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2002 06:05:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20576 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2002 06:05:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.135.44) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2002 06:05:03 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B63553D51; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 01:05:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C78828C.8050203@cygnus.com> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:05:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020210 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJ Delorie Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Delete floatformat_arm_ext References: <3C7864AB.1060900@cygnus.com> <200202240447.g1O4ldb05280@envy.delorie.com> <3C787B14.7080704@cygnus.com> <200202240535.g1O5Zgx05615@envy.delorie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00670.txt.bz2 > The single format wasn't sufficient for a program trying to correctly >> manipulate both big and little endian Arm floating points - hence the >> two new formats. > > > Is it safe to say that the code you're removing never actually worked, > then? If so, then there shouldn't be any legacy code relying on it, > right? Er, actually, the code I ``fixed'' didn't use it either! The format was added '95 but I've had no luck finding anything that used it. enjoy, Andrew