[Bug cli/24099] New: gdb will not correctly examine single precision floats after an "x/b" command

["stseelig at mail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24099

            Bug ID: 24099
           Summary: gdb will not correctly examine single precision floats
                    after an "x/b" command
           Product: gdb
           Version: 8.2.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: cli
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: stseelig at mail dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

gdb will not correctly examine single precision floats after an "x/b" command
below is the program (x86 assembly)

########
# floattest.s
#
# An example of using floating point numbers

.section .data
value1:
.float  12.34
value2:
.double 2353.631

.section .bss
.lcomm  data, 8

.section .text
.globl _start
_start:
        flds    value1
        fldl    value2
        fstl    data

        xorl    %ebx, %ebx
        movl    $1, %eax
        int     $0x80
########


$ gdb -q ./floattest
Reading symbols from ./floattest...done.
(gdb) x/f &value1
0x804a000:      12.3400002
(gdb) x/wx &value1
0x804a000:      0x414570a4
(gdb) x/f &value1
0x804a000:      12.3400002
(gdb) x/4bx &value1
0x804a000:      0xa4    0x70    0x45    0x41
(gdb) x/f &value1
0x804a000:      6.7705045851918156e-220
(gdb) x/wx &value1
0x804a000:      0x414570a4
(gdb) x/f &value1
0x804a000:      12.3400002
(gdb) x/4bx &value1
0x804a000:      0xa4    0x70    0x45    0x41
(gdb) x/f &value1
0x804a000:      6.7705045851918156e-220
(gdb) quit
$

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