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Re: [PATCH] PR target/79004, Fix char/short -> _Float128 on PowerPC -mcpu=power9
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 07:00:36PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 07:39:05PM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > It turns out the testcase I submitted for pr79004 failed, since I had the wrong
> > syntax for \m and \M (you need to use {\m...\M} not "\m...\M".
>
> You can use quotes, but then it is "\\m...\\M", like with all backslashes
> in quotes. {} saves you from that headache. "" has all three kinds of
> substitution applied to it; {} gets none. "man tcl", the most enlightening
> 204 lines (many empty) about Tcl you'll ever read :-)
Yeah, I figured that I could do it with multiple \'s, but it was simpler to use
{} like the other examples, rather than figure out how many \'s are needed
(BTDT).
I don't remember whether tcl used grep, egrep, or perl style regexps, so I
don't tend to use the more complicated variants.
>
> > I also forgot to add -mfloat128. I committed this patch as obvious:
>
> Thanks!
I did test it before submitting it. :-)
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