Unifying the x86 FPU register sets

Todd Whitesel toddpw@windriver.com
Wed Oct 20 17:16:00 GMT 1999


> I've had fleeting thoughts about linking GDB with a software FP
> library like John Houser's SoftFloat that can handle the extended
> precision FP formats found on the X86 and m68k on the theory that
> if you're using long double, you're doing it for a reason, and 
> that 80->64 bit conversion may lose the very information you need
> to debug your program.

I would be in favor of it for a completely different reason:
protection against garbage values from target programs.

-- 
Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ wrs.com


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