Problem with egcs and denormalized constants?

[Gary Thomas]

Which of version of BINUTILS are you using?

On 05-Mar-99 Randy Gobbel wrote:
> 
> David Edelsohn wrote:
>> 
>> >>>>> Randy Gobbel writes:
>> 
>> Randy> P.S.: I just said the flMin problem was an egcs bug.  It's actually an
>> Randy> asm bug, because the constant is correct in the .s file:
>> 
>> Randy> .LC8:
>> Randy> .float 0d1.40129846432481707092e-45
>> 
>>         If I understand correctly, the bug actually is in glibc.  I
>> presume that the GNU assembler is not receiving the correct value when it
>> calls upon glibc to parse the constant for it to emit into the object
>> file.
> 
> I've been poking around in binutils a bit, and it looks to me like the
> badness is actually in gas.  Somewhere in expr.c is my current best
> guess.  As far as I can tell, gas doesn't actually call glibc to
> translate numbers, it has its own hairy platform-independent stuff for
> that.
> 
> -Randy
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