https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70162
--- Comment #10 from Nick Clifton <nickc at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Hi Oleg, > Just out of curiosity ... what's with the 64 in rx_print_integer? It is totally arbitrary... > Why do numbers in that range need to be printed in decimal? They don't. It is just that in my experience, when looking at assembler source files, large constant values are almost always associated with some kind of binary operation - bit masks, binary encoded floating point constants, power of two limits, etc. So I decided, completely arbitrarily, to print out large constants as hex values rather than decimal. In theory it does not matter to the assembler whether the value is in hex or decimal (modulo bugs parsing the values of course), but it mattered to me, as it made it easier to read the assembler source when I was trying to track down a compiler bug. Of course I never really expected anyone else to ever look at these assembler output files, so I never bothered to implement a command line option to select the type of constant to generate. Cheers Nick
