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Re: Clarification in the docs for possible bugs with the Alpha port
- From: Falk Hueffner <falk dot hueffner at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: 02 Aug 2003 13:15:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: Clarification in the docs for possible bugs with the Alpha port
Chris Devers <cdevers@pobox.com> writes:
> In this version of the manual, at the end of section 10.3 on page 309, the
> text reads as follows:
>
> * On the Alpha, you may get assembler errors about invalid syntax as a
> result of floating point constants. This is due to a bug in the C
> library functions ecvt, fcvt and gcvt. Given valid floating point
> numbers, they sometimes print 'NaN'.
>
> Many of the bullet points in this chapter describe a general class
> of problem such as this, and then offer a suggested workaround. No
> such workaround is offered here. Is there a way the user can try to
> avoid floating point numbers being interpreted as NaN on the Alpha,
> or are they just stuck?
Remove the paragraph. gcc emits .long for floating point constants
since at least 2.95, so it shouldn't occur any more.
--
Falk