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To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
cc: brobecker@gnat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Ada's formats 
In-Reply-To: Message from Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> 
   of "Fri, 03 Sep 2004 17:28:43 EDT." <4138E20B.5060700@gnu.org> 
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From: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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> > Andrew,
> > 
> > I have a patch that removes all the language-specific numeric formatting.  
> > It does indeed clean things up a good deal.  There were only three 
> > uses of language-specific numeric printing: for scm-lang.c, m2-lang.c, and
> > p-lang.c.  You indicated that the first two were obsolescent and therefore
> > irrelevant.  What's the story with Pascal?  
> 
> It turns out [unfortunatly off list discussion] that for pascal there's 
> an outstanding request to disable this feature anyway!
> 
> For the feature to ``work'', GDB must be capable of both correctly 
> printing, and correctly parsing the natural language values and for 
> Pascal that's not possible ($<hex> clashes with $<register>).
> 
> We can go ahead with this change,
> 
> Andrew
> 



OK.  I'll update and submit the patch.

Paul