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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add some VAX floating point formats to floatformat.[ch]
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4309BE5A.8020503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4393.192.87.1.200.1124706151.squirrel@192.87.1.200>

Hi Mark,

>>>+  /* VAX byte order.  */
>>>+  floatformat_vax
>>
>>I think that having a more descriptive comment for the VAX byte order
>>would be helpful.  eg describing the layout of 1.2345678e10 as is done
>>with the other entries in this enum.
> 
> Could do that, although it wouldn't be particular useful.  VAX is not quite
> IEEE, so the bytes will be completely different, not just shuffled around.

Ok well then how about the comment containing a quick precis of the VAX 
format.  I am sure that various people will be interested to read it.

Cheers
   Nick



  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-22 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-21 21:59 Mark Kettenis
2005-08-22 10:22 ` Nick Clifton
2005-08-22 11:53   ` Mark Kettenis
2005-08-22 16:07     ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2005-08-22 16:26       ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-08-22 18:32         ` Paul Koning
2005-08-22 18:40   ` DJ Delorie
2005-08-23 21:58 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-08-31  8:48   ` Mark Kettenis
2005-08-31 17:30     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
     [not found]       ` <200508312142.j7VLgn8f019978@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
2005-11-02 10:20         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw

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