Subject: Re: binary/character floating point conversion
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@tac.gw.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/07/2005 08:35:37
In article <87k6ok81ju.fsf@orac.acorntoolworks.com>,
J.T. Conklin <jtc@acorntoolworks.com> wrote:
>jtc@acorntoolworks.com (J.T. Conklin) writes:
>> I've run into a slight problem with building gdtoa lint libraries that
>> I'll bring up in a separate message as I have to run off to a meeting.
>
>The problem I'm having is that the gdtoa code causes a lot of lint
>errors due to its low level bit bashing, etc.  These could be silenced
>at the expense of the divergence caused by adding /*LINTED*/ comments.
>Since these aren't exported interfaces, it seems that simply omitting
>these source files from the lint library may be preferable.  
>
>So my question is whether there is any infrastructure to disable lint
>for a subset of files in a library?

Can you give an example of the "low level bit bashing"? Usually all
that is needed is to change the type of the operands to "uint32_t".

christos