[cxx-abi-dev] Clarification on floating point literal mangling

[Mike Herrick <mjh@xxxxxxx>]

We recently ran across this seeming inconsistency with the description of mangling for floating point literals.  The current wording calls for both "fixed-length" and "without leading zeroes".  We think the "without leading zeroes" portion should be removed to match existing practice:

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  <p>
  Floating-point literals are encoded using a fixed-length lowercase
  hexadecimal string corresponding to the internal representation (IEEE
! on Itanium), high-order bytes first, without leading zeroes.  For
  example: "Lf bf800000 E" is -1.0f on Itanium.
  
  <p>
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  <p>
  Floating-point literals are encoded using a fixed-length lowercase
  hexadecimal string corresponding to the internal representation (IEEE
! on Itanium), high-order bytes first.  For
  example: "Lf bf800000 E" is -1.0f on Itanium.
  
  <p>


Thanks.

Mike Herrick
Edison Design Group