Paul Brook paul@codesourcery.com
Fri Mar 2 17:56:00 GMT 2007

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> To use floating-point immediates, you must now explicitly use a decimal
> point or exponent, i.e.
>
>    vmov.f32 dX, #10.0
>
> not
>
>    vmov.f32 dX, #10

This would be ok if we rejected the latter. However IIUC after your patch we 
silently encode the latter as vmov.i32 dX, #10. This is equivalent to 
vmov.f32 dX, #<some denormal or unrepresentable FP value> which is almost 
certainly not what the user intended.

Paul

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