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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: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uirdzjjql.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070218153705.GA25940@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (message 	from Jan Kratochvil on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:37:06 +0100)

> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:37:06 +0100
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> 
> currently "print/x (float) a" does an integer "print/x (long) a".
> 
> Ulrich Drepper requested to use instead printf ("%a") (man excerpt below):

Thanks.

Two comments:

  . Please submit an appropriate change for the manual.

  . I don't like this bit:

> 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.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-18 20:26 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 [this message]
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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