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Re: [patch] Fix new FAIL `reject p 0x1.1' [fixup] [Re: [patch] Handle 0 result from sscanf when parsing fp values.]


On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> [fixup]
> 
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:34:30 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 0x1.1 is a perfectly valid hexadecimal floating point.  The new testcase:

It's not valid in C source code (a binary exponent is required), though it 
is valid as input to strtod (like INF, NAN, NAN(n-char-sequence_opt) etc.) 
- is the intention here that GDB deliberately accepts something beyond 
what would be valid in C source code?

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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