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Re: Proposal for `info float' layout
- To: kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl (Mark Kettenis)
- Subject: Re: Proposal for `info float' layout
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:17:58 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
>
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 09:09:50 -0800 (PST)
> From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
>
> May I suggest we use
>
> R3: Special 0x00000000000000000000 Denormal 0.0024438394034300000
> R4: Empty 0x00000000000000000000 Zero 0
> R4: Empty 0x00000000000000000000 Normal 1.0
>
> It is more consistent and easy to read.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion. It gives me the opportunity to say a few
> things about how I came to my proposal for the new layout.
>
> While your suggested layout may seem more consistent, I don't think it
> is easier to read.
>
> Keep in mind that GDB is a debugger. We should try to create the
> layout that is most useful for finding bugs. Based on this principle
> I made some decisions:
>
My suggestion was to print Denormal/NaN..... right next to the hex
dump.
H.J.