From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10335 invoked by alias); 1 May 2004 15:00:50 -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 10320 invoked from network); 1 May 2004 15:00:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 May 2004 15:00:49 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i41F0mKI004068; Sat, 1 May 2004 11:00:49 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i41F0lv23380; Sat, 1 May 2004 11:00:47 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8302B9D; Sat, 1 May 2004 11:00:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4093BB9D.5080102@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 15:00:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, dj@redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Add host's floatformat References: <40939DD4.3000706@gnu.org> <200405011433.i41EXqbH006729@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200405011433.i41EXqbH006729@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 > Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 08:53:40 -0400 > From: Andrew Cagney > > 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