[Bug 8861] Revised patch - floating point literal mangling
Richard Earnshaw
rearnsha@arm.com
Tue Jun 10 09:37:00 GMT 2003
>
> After some discussion on the C++ ABI mailing list, the consensus seems
> to be that leading zeroes should *not* be stripped. Also I've
> implemented compatibility with 3.3 under -fabi-version=1, and an -Wabi
> warning.
>
> Bootstrapped i686-linux. OK mainline?
>
> The patch applies unmodified to the 3.3 branch. I don't see any harm
> in providing forward-compatibility with -fabi-version>=2 on the
> branch, but if Mark would prefer I can instead simply add the warning.
>
> zw
>
> PR 8861
> * mangle.c (write_real_cst): New function. Implement
> ABI-compliant mangling of floating-point literals when
> -fabi-version>=2; provide backward compatibility with 3.3 when
> -fabi-version=1 (with warning). Clarify commentary.
> (write_template_arg_literal): Use write_real_cst.
This uses FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN, which on ARM is a function call. Since
mangle.c doens't include tm_p.h this causes a werror failure during
bootstrapping.
Patch is trivial, but I don't have time to do a build-and-test today.
R.
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