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Re: [RFC] Detecting and printing 128-bit long double values for PPC
- From: Luis Machado <luisgpm at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>, gdb-patches ml <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:03:31 -0300
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Detecting and printing 128-bit long double values for PPC
- References: <200704301227.l3UCRhMP024148@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
- Reply-to: luisgpm at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
> No, it isn't. How should GDB recognize the difference?
Doesn't DWARF provide information about this on build time?
> That's interesting. GDB will always read in 16 bytes after your
> modification -- maybe the binary you're building with -mlong-double-64
> happens to have zeros after the "long double" variable your're reading?
Maybe that's the case. Alignment purposes?
Regards,
Luis