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Subject: Re: GDB/libiberty support for IBM long double
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> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:13:20 +0000 (UTC)
> From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
> 
> [gcc-patches included because of the libiberty patch; note this part
> of libiberty isn't used by GCC.  If approved I'll commit just the
> libiberty and include parts to GCC then the whole patch to src.]
> 
> This patch adds 128-bit IBM long double support for Power GNU/Linux to
> GDB.  It's based on a tree with Daniel's ABI detection patch
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-10/msg00672.html> applied.
> The approach taken by this patch is described in my message
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-08/msg00557.html>.  The IBM
> long double format is the same format as used on IRIX so the
> mips-tdep.c kludge to use just the high part of a long double there is
> replaced by a use of floatformats_ibm_long_double.

Hmm, can't we have a somewhat better (more general) name than
floatformats_ibm_long_double (especially since it is no exclusively
used for IBM hardware).