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Re: 8-byte register values on a 32-bit machine


Okay, I got some sleep and drank some tea and stuff.  I'm a bit more
calm now.  :)

I filed a proper PR, so that Daniel J (or anybody) can flow it into
their TODO list.  Daniel said he has several things to do in this code
so I want to get in line properly.

I did mark it severity=critical because gdb prints incorrect values, and
priority=high because Stephane C says that it happens a lot on the HC11.

gdb 5.3 has a different bug in the same area, so this is only sort-of a
regression.  The specific program store.exp in the test suite regressed
between 2003-02-15 and 2003-02-23, but my test program r8.c in the PR is
busted with both gdb 5.3 and gdb 2003-03-01-cvs.

Shouldn't the new code have been made conditional until it at least equalled the functionality of the old mechanism?


By failing to do this to do this, the next release of GDB has gained a dependency on the timetable of an internal change. That is bad.

Andrew



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