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Re: RFC: Add 'double' member to 64-bit vector register type


On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:13:15AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 2005-03-17  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* gdbtypes.c (build_builtin_type_vec64): Include a 'double' member
> 	in the union, too, since these registers can hold 64-bit floating
> 	point types.

Rationale belongs in the patch mail or in comments, not in the
changelog.

I suppose you might as well, since no one but the e500 uses them.  But
only some SPE processors support the double precision mode; do you
really want to display the register as double on e500 v1?


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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