This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: DFP build failure
- From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at br dot ibm dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:30:45 -0200
- Subject: Re: DFP build failure
- References: <20080109164917.GA10333@caradoc.them.org>
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:49 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> void
> decimal_from_floating (struct value *from, gdb_byte *to, int len)
> {
> char *buffer;
> int ret;
>
> ret = asprintf (&buffer, "%.30Lg", value_as_double (from));
> ...
>
> value_as_double returns a DOUBLEST, not necessarily a long double as
> specified by %Lg. And the system printf does not necessarily support
> long double. Is there some other way to do this?
>
> (It failed to build on mingw32.)
Mmmm.... sorry about that. What do you think of the attached fix
(dangerous question to ask!)?
DOUBLEST_PRINT_FORMAT is currently not used, so not a big deal to change
it a bit.
--
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center
diff --git a/gdb/dfp.c b/gdb/dfp.c
index bf82114..4915543 100644
--- a/gdb/dfp.c
+++ b/gdb/dfp.c
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ decimal_from_floating (struct value *from, gdb_byte *to, int len)
char *buffer;
int ret;
- ret = asprintf (&buffer, "%.30Lg", value_as_double (from));
+ ret = asprintf (&buffer, "%.30"DOUBLEST_PRINT_FORMAT, value_as_double (from));
if (ret < 0)
error (_("Error in memory allocation for conversion to decimal float."));
diff --git a/gdb/doublest.h b/gdb/doublest.h
index f3ab619..52e28df 100644
--- a/gdb/doublest.h
+++ b/gdb/doublest.h
@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ struct floatformat;
#if (defined HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE && defined PRINTF_HAS_LONG_DOUBLE \
&& defined SCANF_HAS_LONG_DOUBLE)
typedef long double DOUBLEST;
-# define DOUBLEST_PRINT_FORMAT "%Lg"
+# define DOUBLEST_PRINT_FORMAT "Lg"
# define DOUBLEST_SCAN_FORMAT "%Lg"
#else
typedef double DOUBLEST;
-# define DOUBLEST_PRINT_FORMAT "%g"
+# define DOUBLEST_PRINT_FORMAT "g"
# define DOUBLEST_SCAN_FORMAT "%lg"
/* If we can't scan or print long double, we don't want to use it
anywhere. */