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Re: alternate forms of typeless constants
- To: burley at gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: alternate forms of typeless constants
- From: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv at vanzandt dot mv dot com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 14:44:01 -0500 (EST)
- CC: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com, jrv at mitre dot org
- References: <199810261854.NAA20828@melange.gnu.org>
Craig -
>>Unfortunately, r1mach.f uses this form for only two architectures (the
>>DEC Alpha and ELXSI 6400). The most frequently used form is with a Z
>>prefix, e.g. Z'7F7FFFFF'. I suggest that g77 be generalized to accept
>>at least that form.
>
>I thought it already did! Though I think it defaults to treating
>those as INTEGER, with an option to change to treating them as
>typeless. Look up "boz constants" or other occurrences of "boz" in
>the docs.
You're right, of course. I needed "-ftypeless-boz".
I think the documentation of typeless constants needs a
cross-reference to that option. I think I'll put a patch together.
- Jim Van Zandt