Re: RFA: Support infinity, NaN, and denormalized numbers in floatformat.c

Carlo Wood
2003-12-03T18:35:13Z

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:12:45PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Here is a patch to improve the support for infinity, NaN, and
> denormalized numbers in floatformat.c. It's not clear how to handle
> these for non-IEEE formats. But the old code did entirely the wrong
> thing even when using IEEE formats, which are used by pretty much all
> modern processors. So I think we might as well do the right thing
> here.

Sorry if this is not related - but what are you going to do
with the demangling of floating point values? I sensed a strong
opposition against the IEEE decoding - so I removed my IEEE print
routine again :/.

But if your demangler will demangle everything as IEEE regardless
then I suppose I might as well do the same.

Thanks,

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Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>