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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Grzegorz Cieslewski <cieslewski@hcs.ufl.edu>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Setting a 128 bit value of the vector register
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071106134844.GA25881@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7aa837f80711060545r6f5ba5f5od2370a92c706806b@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:45:57AM -0500, Grzegorz Cieslewski wrote:
> I tried setting the vector register on ppc to a 128 hex number but the
> gdb gave me an
> "Numeric constant too large".

Bug, but not that surprising... GDB uses host integer types to
represent target integer types, and this is too big for any host
integer.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06 13:48 UTC|newest]

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2007-11-06 13:46 Grzegorz Cieslewski
2007-11-06 13:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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