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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] print/x of a float/double should printf ("%a")
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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:34:00 -0000
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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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