From: Ezra Sitorus <ezra.sitorus@arm.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, <luis.machado.foss@gmail.com>,
<pedro@palves.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] gdb/py: Add pretty printer for __mfp8 for aarch64
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:12:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aR3CIdIzSdxRxqBw@D2G2X7XGD1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874iqrrxmo.fsf@tromey.com>
> Can the compiler be fixed to emit correct DWARF instead? That seems
> like it would be a lot better, and in keeping with the purpose of DWARF.
GCC encodes __mfp8 as a uint, while Clang encodes it as unsigned char.
Even if we were to focus on just GCC, __mfp8 is typedef'd as uint8_t so
I don't think we can emit a float type. Or is there something else I'm
overlooking?
Ezra
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-19 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-18 14:14 Ezra.Sitorus
2025-11-18 17:12 ` Andrew Burgess
2025-11-18 18:37 ` Ezra Sitorus
2025-11-26 16:08 ` Ezra Sitorus
2025-11-18 18:42 ` Tom Tromey
2025-11-19 13:12 ` Ezra Sitorus [this message]
2025-11-19 15:58 ` Tom Tromey
2025-11-19 21:28 ` Ezra Sitorus
2025-12-16 16:39 ` Ezra Sitorus
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