llvm dev - Apr 2010 - [LLVMdev] PrintModule: How to make it show floats in decimal instead of hex?

> PS: Maybe not for x86 long double though.
Right, so how to make x86 double displayed in decimal ?
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Gabi

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On 06/04/10 23:12, Gabi wrote:
>> PS: Maybe not for x86 long double though.
>
> Right, so how to make x86 double displayed in decimal ?
Currently this is never done AFAIK.  I don't know why, maybe Dale
does.

Ciao,

Duncan.

On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:31 PMPDT, Duncan Sands wrote:
> On 06/04/10 23:12, Gabi wrote:
>>> PS: Maybe not for x86 long double though.
>> 
>> Right, so how to make x86 double displayed in decimal ?
> 
> Currently this is never done AFAIK.  I don't know why, maybe Dale
> does.
My preference is use the hex format throughout, so it hasn't been a priority
and isn't likely to become one.

Long double presents special problems because it's not portable across
machines, or across compilers in some cases.  In some environments it is the
same as double.  So we can't assume host long double == target long double,
or that host long double is big enough to hold a target long double, which in
effect means we can't use host long double at all.  That makes doing
conversions tricky, though not impossible.