completion.exp: what is "a64l"?

Daniel Berlin dan@cgsoftware.com
Wed Aug 1 16:54:00 GMT 2001


Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com> writes:

> Hi, 
> 
> The gdb test "completion.exp" is failing for me because 
> it is expecting to see a symbol whose name begins with
> "a64l" -- what is that?  There's no explanation for why
> it should be expected to be there, or why its absence
> amounts to a failure for gdb.
> 
> Michael

It's part of glibc.
Don't ask me *what* it is, i just know what nm tells me.

nm /usr/lib/libc.a|grep a64
nm: s_isnanf.o: no symbols
nm: s_copysignf.o: no symbols
a64l.o:
0000000000000000 T a64l
0000000000000000 r a64l_table
0000000000004a64 t group_number

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