From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use convert_typed_floating in i386-tdep.c
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:06:00 -0000
Message-id: <3BDDFD02.8030001@cygnus.com>
References: <200110292352.f9TNqPD17631@delius.kettenis.local>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00368.html

> The new convert_typed_floating functions allows me to remove some
> nasty bits of code in i386-tdep.c.  As a bonus this changes the type
> of the floating-point registers.  We no longer lie to GDB about their
> contents.  They're still marked as convertable though, since core GDB
> doesn't know how to do that yet.

Ya!
As an asside, check the macro (yes macro) REGISTER_CONVERT_TO_TYPE() I 
think a reasonable extension of that can be used to fix the register 
conversion problem.

Andrew