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Re: Unifying the x86 FPU register sets
- To: jtc at redback dot com
- Subject: Re: Unifying the x86 FPU register sets
- From: Todd Whitesel <toddpw at windriver dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:16:36 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com (GDB Developers)
> 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.
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Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ wrs.com