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Re: real.c on unicosmk

From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>,Stephen L Moshier <steve at moshier dot net>,Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>,Roman Lechtchinsky <rl at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 23:18:37 -0700
Subject: Re: real.c on unicosmk
References: <20020523010349.GD6417@codesourcery.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205222119140.26479-100000@moshier.net> <20020522230001.A26240@redhat.com>

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:00:01PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:40:40PM -0400, Stephen L Moshier wrote:
> > Also the assemblers on the older targets usually are buggy.
> > They need to be tested for their ability to handle
> > special values, denormals, and so on.
> 
> We no longer trust any assembler.  It is easier to emit all
> floating point values with their integer bit-wise representation.

There are still some places in the machine descriptions where floating
point values get emitted as float constants.

I will be happy to make a sweep to get rid of them - *after* I purge
deprecated targets (hopefully this weekend).

zw

References:
- Re: real.c on unicosmk
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: real.c on unicosmk
  - From: Stephen L Moshier
- Re: real.c on unicosmk
  - From: Richard Henderson

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