From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7iu8wxeo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070223161453.GA479@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (message from Jan Kratochvil on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:14:53 +0100)
> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:14:53 +0100
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> ...
> > . Please submit an appropriate change for the manual.
>
> Attached.
Thanks, the patch for the manual is fine with me.
> > > Systems not supporting "%a" will print the value as
> > > print (float) a
> > > which differs from the current way there:
> > > print/x (long) a
> >
> > This makes this an incompatible change. For this reason, I'd prefer a
> > new format letter, like Andreas suggested.
>
> I believe this change is to make the most common default action more valid.
> Also some hardly noticeable changes are what separate GDB stable release are
> for, aren't they?
Changes that _add_ features are okay, but this one changes an existing
one.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-23 18:18 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
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 [this message]
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