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Re: Bytes order and words order
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 02:33:51PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>
> >> Well, what mostly is annoying me in my proposed scheme is that it
> >> would somehow duplicate some information mostly with real.[ch].
> >> That really makes me uneasy. On a previous attempt, I tried to
> >> have real.[ch] act like part of the C++ library, that was way too
> >> invasive and too tighly coupled with GCC's internals. I'm open to
> >> suggestions.
>
> Daniel> Libiberty has a file in it called floatformat.c. You'd need
> Daniel> to play some licensing games to use it but it should have
> Daniel> everything you need; that's how GDB understands target
> Daniel> floats.
>
> Correct me if I missed something, but from a cursory scan of that file
> it looks like it only supports one of the four formats (IEEE) that
> real.c supports.
That may be - but it's structured such that adding more ought to be
practical. I think. I'm no expert on floating point!
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer