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Re: [patch, libiberty, gdb] IEEE 754 half floating-point format


> > My only comment regarding this part of the patch is that "half_bit"
> > and "half_format" isn't very intuitive. Perhaps that's more obvious
> > to someone who programs in OpenCL if "half" is a type name? For
> > the other arch routines, the routine name makes it clear that it's
> > about floating point types, because it contains a name that is
> > clearly associated to floats (float, double, long double).  What
> > about using "half_float_bit" and "half_float_format"?
[...]
> Of course, we could still change the name of the gdbarch callbacks
> if you think this would be more intuitive.

No one really commented on it, so it's probably not worth our trouble,
I think.

-- 
Joel


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