From: Randy Gobbel <gobbel@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: kbhend@business.wm.edu, gdt@linuxppc.org, sbb@gnu.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Problem with egcs and denormalized constants?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 21:42:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36DF4486.6E098903@andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9903042352.AA37658@marc.watson.ibm.com
David Edelsohn wrote:
>
> >>>>> Randy Gobbel writes:
>
> Randy> P.S.: I just said the flMin problem was an egcs bug. It's actually an
> Randy> asm bug, because the constant is correct in the .s file:
>
> Randy> .LC8:
> Randy> .float 0d1.40129846432481707092e-45
>
> If I understand correctly, the bug actually is in glibc. I
> presume that the GNU assembler is not receiving the correct value when it
> calls upon glibc to parse the constant for it to emit into the object
> file.
I've been poking around in binutils a bit, and it looks to me like the
badness is actually in gas. Somewhere in expr.c is my current best
guess. As far as I can tell, gas doesn't actually call glibc to
translate numbers, it has its own hairy platform-independent stuff for
that.
-Randy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-05 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-04 17:02 Problem with egcs and denormalized constants? Kevin B. Hendricks
1999-03-04 22:27 ` Randy Gobbel
1999-03-04 22:29 ` Randy Gobbel
1999-03-04 23:52 ` David Edelsohn
1999-03-05 2:42 ` Randy Gobbel [this message]
1999-03-05 4:01 ` David Edelsohn
1999-03-05 10:06 ` Gary Thomas
1999-03-06 7:21 ` Gary Thomas
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1999-03-04 18:43 Will Wood
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