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Re: [PATCH]: Remove sparc-linux long double size override.


On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:19:40PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> There isn't a way to really detect this at run time, but I
> think it's better to move forward and delete this override
> and get current systems right rather than support ancient
> ones.

FWIW, GDB will still mostly work with 64-bit long double once this is
applied (we went through the same thing for PPC).  It will just be a
little confused because the type "long double" from debug info will
appear to be a double instead.

> Ok to apply?
> 
> 2008-05-11  David S. Miller  <davem@davemloft.net>
> 
> 	* sparc-linux-tdep.c (sparc32_linux_init_abi): Remove
> 	long double size override, Linux does use 128-bit now.

Yes, this is fine.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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