From: Timothy Wall <twall@oculustech.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: ARM float/double conversion
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0E3509.7EAF89EF@oculustech.com> (raw)
In gdb/doublest.c, there is some conversion done for
floatformat_littlebyte_bigword (currently only used by ARM):
longswaps = fmt->totalsize / FLOATFORMAT_CHAR_BIT;
longswaps >>= 3;
while (longswaps-- > 0)
{
/* This is ugly, but efficient */
*swapout++ = swapin[4];
*swapout++ = swapin[5];
*swapout++ = swapin[6];
*swapout++ = swapin[7];
*swapout++ = swapin[0];
*swapout++ = swapin[1];
*swapout++ = swapin[2];
*swapout++ = swapin[3];
swapin += 8;
}
What's odd is that fmt->totalsize can be either 64 or 96, based on the formats
defined in libiberty/floatformat.c. For either case, longswaps will be 1, so
I don't understand why
this code was "generalized". I assume that the extended double on the ARM has
just the
first two 32-bit words swapped.
I actually need to extend this code to do similar swaps for a 32-bit float,
and was going to
"generalize" to accommodate that (little-endian, bigword, word size is 16
bits).
T.
next reply other threads:[~2001-12-05 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-05 6:54 Timothy Wall [this message]
2001-12-05 8:05 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-12-05 8:16 ` Richard Earnshaw
2001-12-05 9:36 ` Andrew Cagney
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