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Re: Recent Linux related changes to gdb...
- To: kevinb AT cygnus dot com (Kevin Buettner)
- Subject: Re: Recent Linux related changes to gdb...
- From: hjl AT lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:05:44 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: jimb AT cygnus dot com (Jim Blandy),kettenis AT wins.uva.nl (Mark Kettenis), gdb AT sourceware.cygnus dot com
>
> I have reverted the linux-specific changes for printing out registers
> and the state of the FPU.
>
> We would very much like to restore this lost functionality by unifying
> FP support for the various i386 implementations. I know that a number
> of you were active in discussions regarding FP support unification
> earlier this summer. If you have patches, send them our way! :)
>
> Those of you watching the number of test suite failures on Linux will
> notice that there is now one more failure than before (info float).
>
I believe that other none-Linux OSes are protected in my original
x86 fpu patch for gdb 4.17. I don't remember it was very hard to do.
I have access to Solaris 7/x86. I can do it again.
# gdb
GNU gdb 4.17.0.14 with Linux support
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
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This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.7".
(gdb) info float
No floating point info available for this processor.
(gdb)
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)