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Re: RFA: document raw/virtual stuff
- To: jimb at zwingli dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: RFA: document raw/virtual stuff
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:08:17 -0400 (EDT)
- CC: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200004042147.QAA27840@zwingli.cygnus.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> + @item
> + The x86 architecture supports an 80-bit floating-point type. If we're
> + running GDB on a host that doesn't support 80-bit floats, we will
> + convert those values to the largest floating-point type available on the
> + host. Thus, the x86 80-bit floating-point type is the @dfn{raw}
> + representation, and the host's largest floating-point type is the
> + @dfn{virtual} representation.
I think this paragraph should not use @dfn. You already used @dfn
with these terms in a previous paragraph, where you first introduced
these notions. IMHO, @dfn should appear only once for every term.
> + @deftypefn {Target Macro} struct type *REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE (int @var{reg})
Don't you want to say "struct @var{type}..."?
I also suggest to add index entries for the raw and virtual
representations.