Re: [PATCH] gcc: rename floatformat_ia64_quad_{big, little} to floatformat_ieee_quad_{big, little}

[Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>]

On 3/13/2022 9:10 PM, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> I submitted a GDB patch [1] to rename floatformats_ia64_quad to
> floatformats_ieee_quad to reflect the reality, and then we can
> clean up the related code.
>
> As GDB Global Maintainer Tom Tromey said [2]:
>
>    These files are maintained in gcc and then imported into the
>    binutils-gdb repository, so any changes to them will have to
>    be proposed there first.
>
> this GCC patch is preparation for the GDB patch, no functionality
> change.
>
> [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2022-March/186452.html
> [2] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2022-March/186569.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
> ---
>
> Hi GCC Maintainers,
>
> I have no write access of gcc.git, if you are OK with this change,
> could you please help me to merge this patch to the gcc master?

While this isn't a behavior change, it is, an ABI change.  We don't have 
a strict backwards compatible ABI mandate for libiberty, but it is 
useful to keep ABI issues in mind when making changes to libraries.  I'm 
not terribly worried about this one.

Also, please make sure to include ChangeLog entries in future submissions.

Thanks.  Installed on the trunk.

Jeff