Re: examining floating point data with 'print' on non floating point kernel

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-15T01:16:31Z

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:08:22PM -0500, Claudia Salzberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use the 'print' command on a function declared in the
> program being debugged. This function takes in 10 values and prints them
> with a printf(%f). The program prints the values correctly if run
> independently of gdb. If the program is run on gdb normally (meaning with
> just run) they also print correctly. However, when called with the print
> command the output is unexpected and it prints either 0.00000 or nan where
> the various floating point values should be. This works fine on a power 3
> ppc box but does not work on the 440GP.

This means that your 440GP installation is using a different floating
point model than GDB thinks it is.

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