This is the mail archive of the
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: [Ada] Fix PR ada/51483
- From: Geert Bosch <bosch at adacore dot com>
- To: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:23:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Ada] Fix PR ada/51483
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <2286183 dot peadimGI5h at polaris>
On Mar 13, 2014, at 11:36, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:
> This fixes a flaw in the mechanism implemented to register modes and types
> declared in the back-end with the front-end. The mechanism was implicitly
> making the assumption that it is possible to deduce the size of a FP mode
> from its precision and alignment; that's wrong in the general case, although
> exceptions to the rule are quite rare (typically for an IEEE extended mode).
Thanks, Eric!
-Geert