Re: toolchain/43303: __builtin_huge_val() generates illegal code on vax

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/43303; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/43303: __builtin_huge_val() generates illegal code on
 vax
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 13:43:16 -0600 (MDT)

 On Sat, 15 May 2010, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
 
 > >> Fix:
 > > fix gcc's idea of __builtin_huge_val() for vax
 >
 >    Hmmm...  It looks to me like atof_vax.c is missing the support for
 > Nan, +Inf, and -Inf.  There's a comment at line 271 of
 > src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/gas/config/atof-vax.c:
 >
 >            /* JF: Deal with new Nan, +Inf and -Inf codes.  */
 >
 >    But it only checks for '+' and '-' in f->sign;  f->sign will contain 0
 > for Nan, 'P' for +Inf, and 'N' for -Inf (set by atof_generic()).  It
 > then generates an invalid floating point number.
 
    And it looks like Matt Thomas had already proposed a fix for this:
 http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-04/msg00045.html
 
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