On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 -0800, Fu, Chao-Ying wrote: > 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!
Where do the 'll' and 'LL' come from in fixed-point suffixes? Is there a reason that your implementation requires them to be the same case? Janis
