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Re: [PATCH]: Remove sparc-linux long double size override.
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:26:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Remove sparc-linux long double size override.
- References: <20080511.151940.173655400.davem@davemloft.net>
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.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery