From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12453 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2007 18:18:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 12445 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Feb 2007 18:18:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (HELO nitzan.inter.net.il) (213.8.233.22) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:18:09 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-55-177.inter.net.il [84.228.55.177]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GCS52114 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:18:02 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:18:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Jan Kratochvil CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20070223161453.GA479@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (message from Jan Kratochvil on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:14:53 +0100) Subject: Re: [RFC] print/x of a float/double should printf ("%a") Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20070218153705.GA25940@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20070223161453.GA479@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00290.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:14:53 +0100 > From: Jan Kratochvil > ... > > . 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.