Janis Johnson wrote: > > I'm rewriting function interpret_float_suffix in libcpp/expr.c to fix > suffixes in decimal float literal constants for c/33466. While I'm at > it I'm fixing suffixes for fixed-point literal constants. > Currently for > fixed-point GCC accepts any ordering of the letters in the > suffix. The > technical report (N1169) gives specific strings, not > individual letters > that can be used in any order. That seems like something > obvious to fix > but I thought I'd mention it in case they really should be accepted in > any order. > > My question, though, is about the case of the letters in the suffixes. > N1169 says "note that the suffix is case insensitive"; should I take > that literally and allow any mix of cases (as GCC currently does), or > require that the same case be used within a particular suffix?
From my implementation, I allow mixed-case suffixes. We can view this as a GCC feature, if it turns out that the spec doesn't allow this. Thanks! Regards, Chao-ying
