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Re: Binary numbers starting with 0b

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Marc Khouzam <marc dot khouzam at ericsson dot com>
Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, nickrob at snap dot net dot nz
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:30:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Binary numbers starting with 0b
References: <6D19CA8D71C89C43A057926FE0D4ADAA04290FC8@ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se>

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:17:44PM -0400, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A couple of months ago it was discussed to add a 0b in front of binary numbers.
> 
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-01/msg00327.html
> 
> I'm not sure what happened to this.  Was it decided against?
> Or maybe there was a backwards compatibility concern?  I actually am a bit worried
> about adding the 0b as not being backwards compatible, although I do think it would
> be a nice thing for GDB to accept.

No, there was no decision against it.  I still think it's a good idea,
I just didn't have time to update the parsers.

I do not see any compatibility problems.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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