From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Edelsohn To: Randy Gobbel 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 15:52:00 -0000 Message-id: <9903042352.AA37658@marc.watson.ibm.com> In-reply-to: Message from Randy Gobbel of "Thu, 04 Mar 1999 17:29:52 EST." <36DF0960.404624C0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <36DF0960.404624C0@andrew.cmu.edu> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00191.html >>>>> 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. David From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Edelsohn To: Randy Gobbel 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: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: <9903042352.AA37658@marc.watson.ibm.com> References: <36DF0960.404624C0@andrew.cmu.edu> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00192.html Message-ID: <19990331234600.89zruES7NolWiETxsPUL-9zMVfxu_jiGtOWn_VMIR-w@z> >>>>> 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. David