Bytes order and words order

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Fri Aug 23 11:53:00 GMT 2002


Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
| 
| |> Well, what mostly is annoying me in my proposed scheme is that it
| |> would somehow duplicate some information mostly with real.[ch].  That 
| |> really makes me uneasy.  On a previous attempt, I tried to have
| |> real.[ch] act like part of the C++ library, that was way too invasive
| |> and too tighly coupled with GCC's internals.  I'm open to suggestions.
| 
| How about libiberty/floatformat.c?

I didn't have a look into it yet.  Paul seems to imply that it
supports only IEEE-754 -- real.[ch] supports four the last time I
checked. 

Thanks,

-- Gaby



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