From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8855 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2002 17:56:22 -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 8847 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2002 17:56:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Apr 2002 17:56:20 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (reddwarf.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.50]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA11501; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CC59D6E.27E27F3B@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:56:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: brobecker@ACT-Europe.FR, thorpej@wasabisystems.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix recent compilation errors in alpha-nat.c on alpha-osf References: <20020422154234.F21070@act-europe.fr> <20020422085618.F27275@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <20020423121442.A15898@act-europe.fr> <20020423.034626.17274699.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00858.txt.bz2 "David S. Miller" wrote: > > From: Joel Brobecker > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:14:42 +0200 > > Thanks for the help. I relaunched the testsuite, and here are the > results on our Tru64 5.1A machine. They should be identical to > yesterday's results: > > # of unexpected failures 791 > > This reminds me of an issue Richard Henderson mentioned to > me. At least at one point in time gdb got really confused when gcc > used float regs for integer values. This happens quite often on > Alpha, and can happen on other systems too (Sparc when usage of > VIS instructions is enabled). > > Does GDB still have a problem with this situation? Very likely. But it would be on a target-by-target basis, I think.