[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 1250] pseudocode should avoid using strings as constants

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> ---
(In reply to Dmitry Selyutin from comment #4)
> FTR, I'm referring to 3.1B.

please don't. refer to where the pseudocode was extracted:

   5 
   6 <!-- Power ISA Book I Version 3.0B Section A.3 page 782 -->
   7 

https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=openpower-isa.git;a=blob;f=openpower/isafunctions/fpfromint.mdwn;hb=HEAD

it is *not* getting changed. no amount of justification for
"it should be" or "this is stupid" will override the fact that
these functions are directly out of the spec and they are just not
going to be changed: that, sorry to have to say it, is simply
the end of the matter.

if we ourselves had invented this pseudocode it would be a
different matter entirely... (but only when the chnges could
be scheduled and evaluated for cost and impact)

i come across this a lot, someone in a Corporation makes a
dumb decision, everyone has to live with it due to compatibility
reasons.

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