[RFC] Detecting and printing 128-bit long double values for PPC

[Luis Machado]

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 18:17 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:36:00PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > Under the circumstances, I'd argue we should just change the built-in
> > type to 128-bit, and make sure that binaries with a DWARF-2 reported
> > "long double" fundamental type of 64-bit still use the proper floating
> > point format info for that type.
> > 
> > Anything I'm missing here?
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me.

Bringing back the topic. The patch is handling those types as 128-bit in
length by default. Depending on the dwarf info, gdb switches to either
64-bit or 128-bit during printing.

Isn't it right? Maybe i'm missing something regarding GDB's built-in
types for long doubles.

Regards,


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Luis Machado
IBM Linux Technology Center
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