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Re: [RFA] Fix recent compilation errors in alpha-nat.c on alpha-osf
"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@ACT-Europe.FR>
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:14:42 +0200
>
> Thanks for the help. I relaunched the testsuite, and here are the
> results on our Tru64 5.1A machine. They should be identical to
> yesterday's results:
>
> # of unexpected failures 791
>
> This reminds me of an issue Richard Henderson mentioned to
> me. At least at one point in time gdb got really confused when gcc
> used float regs for integer values. This happens quite often on
> Alpha, and can happen on other systems too (Sparc when usage of
> VIS instructions is enabled).
>
> Does GDB still have a problem with this situation?
Very likely. But it would be on a target-by-target basis, I think.