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Re: Bug with g77 and -mieee on Alpha Linux
- To: Donn Terry <donn at verinet dot com>
- Subject: Re: Bug with g77 and -mieee on Alpha Linux
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:50:06 -0600
- cc: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>, Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>, craig at jcb-sc dot com, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <378A8274.D7309E6A@verinet.com>you write:
> I pushed on this hard enough that I hacked up gdb to print out
> the x86 FP registers in both hex and float decimal, along with intepreted
> values of the control registers and a TOS marker. It helped a lot.
> (This is for an older gdb, and I haven't converted it to a patch, but
> I'll be happy to ship the file to someone to convert it to a newer
> gdb; the changes should be easily portable.)
I would strongly recommend you get this stuff to the gdb folks. They're
in the process of trying to beef up gdb's handling of the floating point
unit. This is precisely the kind of thing that it would be great to have
in gdb.
jeff