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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, nickrob@snap.net.nz
Subject: Re: Binary numbers starting with 0b
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080325203030.GA27776@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D19CA8D71C89C43A057926FE0D4ADAA04290FC8@ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se>

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:17:44PM -0400, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A couple of months ago it was discussed to add a 0b in front of binary numbers.
> 
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-01/msg00327.html
> 
> I'm not sure what happened to this.  Was it decided against?
> Or maybe there was a backwards compatibility concern?  I actually am a bit worried
> about adding the 0b as not being backwards compatible, although I do think it would
> be a nice thing for GDB to accept.

No, there was no decision against it.  I still think it's a good idea,
I just didn't have time to update the parsers.

I do not see any compatibility problems.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-25 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25 20:44 Marc Khouzam
2008-03-25 21:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-03-26 14:24   ` Marc Khouzam
2008-03-25 21:41 ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-26 14:16   ` Marc Khouzam
2008-03-26 22:40     ` Nick Roberts

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