From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: "Nick Clifton" <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
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 11:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4393.192.87.1.200.1124706151.squirrel@192.87.1.200> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43098730.3060802@redhat.com>
> Hi Mark,
>
> No objections from binutils for this, although it is officially a GDB
> header file so make sure that you get agreement from them before
> committing your change.
Thanks!
>> + /* 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.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-22 10:22 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 [this message]
2005-08-22 16:07 ` Nick Clifton
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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