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Re: [RFC] print/x of a float/double should printf ("%a")
> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:14:53 +0100
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> ...
> > . Please submit an appropriate change for the manual.
>
> Attached.
Thanks, the patch for the manual is fine with me.
> > > Systems not supporting "%a" will print the value as
> > > print (float) a
> > > which differs from the current way there:
> > > print/x (long) a
> >
> > This makes this an incompatible change. For this reason, I'd prefer a
> > new format letter, like Andreas suggested.
>
> I believe this change is to make the most common default action more valid.
> Also some hardly noticeable changes are what separate GDB stable release are
> for, aren't they?
Changes that _add_ features are okay, but this one changes an existing
one.