More ABI changes

[Don Clugston]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> However, even better would be to make this aspect of the ABI
>> CPU-independent.
>>
>> Define format to be:
>> e HexExponent HexSignificand  for real and imaginary FP literals.
>> c HexExponent HexSignificand HexExponent HexSignificand for complex FP
>> literals.
> 
> You've given me a great idea. Why not just use the %A format? It 
> portably formats the value into a machine independent hex format. All 
> that needs to be done is to massage it to elide the non-identifier 
> characters.

That's brilliant. It means you have automatic compression of trailing 
zero bits. I guess if you strip off the "0x1.", you get rid of the 
problem with the formats which use another character like "0xA." instead.
I presume it will have either the length at the front like an Lname, or 
else some character as a delimiter?