From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
dj@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Add host's floatformat
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 15:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4093BB9D.5080102@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405011433.i41EXqbH006729@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>
> Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 08:53:40 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>
> Hello,
>
> This patch adds the host's floatformat (when known) to floatformat.[hc].
> It lets us wack of a heap of bogus code in GDB's configury.
>
> Hmm. I'm all for whacking the xm-*.h files, but isn't it better to
> keep this local to GDB instead of stuffing it into libiberty? If so,
> we should probably put most of the stuff in configure.host, such that
> we can avoid regenerating configure when updating the float support.
Why?
It's a natural extension for liberty's floatformat database - knowledge
of the host's formats.
As for autoconf, libiberty's using 2.5x so that (unlike with GDB) is a
non-issue.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-01 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-01 12:53 Andrew Cagney
2004-05-01 13:25 ` DJ Delorie
2004-05-01 14:28 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-05-01 14:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-05-01 14:34 ` Mark Kettenis
2004-05-01 15:00 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-05-01 17:20 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-05-02 10:04 ` Mark Kettenis
2004-05-02 20:49 ` DJ Delorie
2004-05-02 20:49 ` DJ Delorie
2004-05-03 19:11 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-05-03 22:11 ` DJ Delorie
2004-05-03 22:29 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-05-03 22:34 ` DJ Delorie
2004-07-26 21:12 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-05-03 22:37 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-05-03 22:44 ` DJ Delorie
2004-05-03 23:21 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-05-03 23:48 ` DJ Delorie
2004-05-03 23:58 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-05-04 14:11 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-05-05 16:32 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-05-05 17:05 ` DJ Delorie
2004-07-29 19:35 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-07-30 9:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-07-30 13:26 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-11-20 18:17 ` Andreas Schwab
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