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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: kettenis@wins.uva.nl
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, grossman@juniper.dot.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix returning floating points values for x86
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1438-Wed11Jul2001191258+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107110849.f6B8nGB19158@delius.kettenis.local>

> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:49:16 +0200
> From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>
> 
> 	* i386-tdep.c (i386_extract_return_value): "Fix" comment.
> 	(i386_store_return_value): Frob FPU status and tag word to make
> 	sure the return value is the only value on the FPU stack.

Mark, could you please say a few words about the problem that this
solves, and why is this the right solution?  I admit I don't
understand it, and the comment about st(0) scared me a bit: it's
certainly _not_ true, in general, that st(0) is always FP0_REGNUM.

TIA


  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-11  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-11  1:49 Mark Kettenis
2001-07-11  9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2001-07-11 13:28   ` Mark Kettenis
2001-07-12  0:00     ` Eli Zaretskii

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