Re: [RFA] Fix recent compilation errors in alpha-nat.c on alpha-osf

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

"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.