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Re: Floating point types in target descriptions
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:53:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: Floating point types in target descriptions
- References: <200704131348.10042.paul@codesourcery.com>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:48:09PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> The patch below adds ieee_single and ieee_double predefined types for use in
> XML target descriptions. These are needed to describe vector types with
> floating point elements.
>
> I considered using "float"/"double" and/or "float32"/"float64". However the
> former are ambiguous with the "float" register type, and the latter don't
> really tell you want you're getting. If targets need non-ieee types they can
> add them like arm_fpa_ext.
>
> Ok?
Thanks, this is OK.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery