From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9515 invoked by alias); 3 May 2004 23:58:15 -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 9502 invoked from network); 3 May 2004 23:58:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 May 2004 23:58:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 15704 invoked from network); 3 May 2004 23:58:13 -0000 Received: from taltos.codesourcery.com (zack@66.92.218.83) by mail.codesourcery.com with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 3 May 2004 23:58:13 -0000 Received: by taltos.codesourcery.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 3 May 2004 16:58:13 -0700 To: DJ Delorie Cc: cagney@gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Add host's floatformat References: <40939DD4.3000706@gnu.org> <4093DC36.9040304@gnu.org> <200405020312.i423CSlH008732@greed.delorie.com> <4096996E.9080700@gnu.org> <200405032210.i43MArI1021688@greed.delorie.com> <4096C9AE.9040504@gnu.org> <200405032244.i43MiDEY022139@greed.delorie.com> <4096D3E3.1060102@gnu.org> <200405032348.i43NmlgN023136@greed.delorie.com> From: Zack Weinberg Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 23:58:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200405032348.i43NmlgN023136@greed.delorie.com> (DJ Delorie's message of "Mon, 3 May 2004 19:48:47 -0400") Message-ID: <87smeh9i7f.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00083.txt.bz2 DJ Delorie writes: >> > Er, no. The person who causes the problem gets to fix it. Especially >> > when the problem is known beforehand, a workable solution is offered, >> > and you choose otherwise anyway. >> >> Please point me at a case that doesn't work. > > I can't think of a concrete example off the top of my head, but then > again, that rationalizing would have me set IEEE as the default and > use configure.ac only to override it. That seems sensible to me... > However, I would have picked a more interesting number if I was going > to use just one, like 0.00207. That makes more exponent and mantissa > bits interesting. For awhile GCC's configure.in had a table like this -- tuned so that you could just compile it and grep for strings in the object file. We got rid of it (GCC doesn't need to know the host float format anymore) but it could be dug out of CVS. zw