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Re: Unifying i387 support
- To: Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>, DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
- Subject: Re: Unifying i387 support
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 03:25:37 -0400 (EDT)
- CC: billm@suburbia.net, gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com
> As I understand it, there are multiple ways to interpret the contents
> of an MMX register. It might contain one double, or two floats.
AFAIK, the MMX registers only contain integers, not floats.
> And
> only the user knows what is appropriate at any given time. I can't
> tell if this impinges on our choice of register layout. Does anyone
> have any idea how to handle this?
If the MMX registers contain integers, as I think they do, simply
displaying them in hex and decimal as we do with EAX will be good
enough.
It seems like this belongs to "info all-registers", not to "info
float", though.