From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] print/x of a float/double should printf ("%a")
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jek5yfbf1b.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070218160855.GA7414@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:08:56 -0500")
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> You can't use this representation with 'x' readily because you may not
> be able to specify the type - e.g. you can't use 'x' to display 80-bit
> extended.
We can already distinguish beween float and double (/wf vs /gf), adding a
size specfier for long double would be orthogonal to this.
> Of course, we also want a way to show the bits of a register as normal
> hex, not hex floating point.
One might also want to print the contents of an integer register as a hex
float.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-18 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-18 15:37 Jan Kratochvil
2007-02-18 15:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-18 16:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-18 16:34 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-02-18 20:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-18 20:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-18 22:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-23 16:15 ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-02-23 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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