Problem with egcs and denormalized constants?

David Edelsohn dje at watson.ibm.com
Fri Mar 5 10:52:28 EST 1999


>>>>> 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

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