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Re: [PATCH] PR libstdc++/13045 / C++ demangler, floating values and function pointer type return type postfix fix.

Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> writes:

| On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:36:53PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
| > That might be reasonable for 'float' and 'double', but 'long double'
| > varies greatly between platforms.
| 
| sizeof(long double) is > 8 I suppose?  In that case it will
| print just the hex value: (double)[3ff999294912bc6120e95828]
| or actually, it currently would fail to demangle it,
| it doesn't support the 'long double' casts in literals.

I think there should be no need to cast a floating point literal to a
floaying point type.  That sort of thing just add another level of
indeterminacy. 

-- Gaby
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