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Subject: Re: [RFC] Detecting and printing 128-bit long double values for PPC
From: Luis Machado <luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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> No, it isn't.  How should GDB recognize the difference?

Doesn't DWARF provide information about this on build time?

> That's interesting.  GDB will always read in 16 bytes after your
> modification -- maybe the binary you're building with -mlong-double-64
> happens to have zeros after the "long double" variable your're reading?

Maybe that's the case. Alignment purposes? 

Regards,
Luis