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Re: [RFC] Detecting and printing 128-bit long double values for PPC
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:08:48AM -0300, Luis Machado wrote:
> Isn't the length of the data type supposed to be available from DWARF?
> Or this should still be included by the binaries that actually generate
> the DWARF info?
This is "the ABI-defined long double type", which GDB distinguishes
from "the debug info describing long double". I suppose you could
come up with a way to distinguish binaries based on what their debug
info has to say about it, if it mentions long double anywhere.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery