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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: Ruslan Kabatsayev <b7.10110111@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PR 18702] Fix wrong output of x87 registers due to truncation to double on amd64
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mvttt7be.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564F998D.5080406@gmail.com> (Ruslan Kabatsayev's message of	"Sat, 21 Nov 2015 01:07:09 +0300")

Ruslan Kabatsayev <b7.10110111@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Ruslan,

> When `info float` is used on an AMD64 system, GDB prints floating-point
> values of x87 registers with raw contents like 0x361a867a8e0527397ce0 or
> 0xc4f988454a1ddd3cfdab wrongly. This happens due to truncation to double,
> after which the former becomes 0.0, and the latter becomes negative infinity.
> This is caused by failed detection of x86-64 host, which results in setting
> gdb_host_{float,double,long_double}_format to zeros.
> This commit fixes this misdetection.

I think your patch is correct, but I am not confident approving it
because I know few about floating point stuff.  Do you run GDB
regression tests?

>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> 	* configure.host: Fix detection of x86_64 host when setting floatformats

This line is too long, the max is 74.  Sentence should be ended with ".".

-- 
Yao (齐尧)


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-02 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-20 22:07 Ruslan Kabatsayev
2015-12-02 11:32 ` Yao Qi [this message]
2015-12-02 14:26   ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2015-12-03 11:27     ` Yao Qi
2015-12-04 14:41       ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2015-12-03 12:28 ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-04 15:06   ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2015-12-04 15:11     ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-04 15:17       ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2015-12-04 15:35         ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-04 16:09           ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2015-12-05 22:41             ` Andrew Burgess
2015-12-06  6:30               ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2015-12-09 12:23                 ` Pedro Alves

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