From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9525 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2005 15:37:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9451 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2005 15:37:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 19 Mar 2005 15:37:14 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.44 #1 (Debian)) id 1DCg0k-0001Eu-7h; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:37:10 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:37:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFC: Add 'double' member to 64-bit vector register type Message-ID: <20050319153709.GA4659@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Blandy , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00254.txt.bz2 On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:13:15AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote: > > gdb/ChangeLog: > 2005-03-17 Jim Blandy > > * gdbtypes.c (build_builtin_type_vec64): Include a 'double' member > in the union, too, since these registers can hold 64-bit floating > point types. Rationale belongs in the patch mail or in comments, not in the changelog. I suppose you might as well, since no one but the e500 uses them. But only some SPE processors support the double precision mode; do you really want to display the register as double on e500 v1? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC