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From: cgd@broadcom.com
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 23:24:00 -0000
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At Fri, 16 May 2003 23:06:50 +0000 (UTC), "Kevin Buettner" wrote:
> On May 16,  3:50pm, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> 
> > another reasonable way (but less efficient on a 64-bit part with a
> > 64-bit FPU) would be:
> > 
> > 	0: <high half garbage><low half meaningful>
> > 	1: <high half garbage><low half meaningful>
> 
> This is how the mips64 o32 rda transfers the FP registers.

Hmm.

OK, then, well, how do we ("gdb") tell the difference, since for o32
binaries it's reasonable to use either o32 RDA or (one might think)
n32 RDA?

8-)


chris