From: Chris Moller <cmoller@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Cc: frysk@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: -format options
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D2F498.9000407@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D2F057.7050901@redhat.com>
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Any reason you couldn't just pass a kind of printf format string to
-format. E.g.,
print 1.0 "%g 0x%08x"
would print the value first as a double--1.0--and then again in hex.
(Unlike printf, each % substitution would refer to the same value.)
cm
Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some questions, and ideas.
>
> What should the -format qualifier do when applied to floating point?
> For instance:
> (fhpd) print 1.0 -format x
> 0x1
> i.e., convert the cooked value to decimal and then print in hex; or:
> (fhpd) print 1.0 -format x
> 0x3ff0000000000000
> i.e., print the raw value in hex. I think the answer depends on the
> next question.
>
> What possible format options are there and how should they interact?
> Here's a possible list:
> bi[t]s, [o]ctal, [d]ecimal, he[x]adecimal, [f]loat, [v]alue (i.e.,
> default)
> [r]aw, [c]ooked
> [b]ig-endian, [l]ittle-endian, [n]ative (for default)
> [s]igned, [u]nsigned, [i]nteger (for default???)
> reset: -
> are there others? I've tried to make each set largely orthogonal;
> does this work? Would other combinations be better? For
> signed/unsigned is there a better "default" to integer. Should
> [o][x][t] just imply unsigned?
>
> How should these options be specified; Either:
> -format rx
> or
> -format x -data r -order b
> for dumping each field in big-endian raw hex. I prefer the more terse
> former.
>
--
Chris Moller
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