From: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Message-Id: <199707162032.AA119725152@typhoon.rose.hp.com>
Subject: Re: GDB doesn't understand long doubles
To: eldredge AT ap DOT net (Nate Eldredge)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 13:32:31 PDT
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <199707161938.MAA08180@adit.ap.net>; from "Nate Eldredge" at Jul 16, 97 12:38 (noon)
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> GDB does not seem to understand the concept of a long double. When I try to
> examine one, it tells me it is "void". `print' and `whatis' both demonstrate
When I use -gstabs from pgcc I get this 

(gdb) p x 
$1 Can't deal with a floating point number of 12 bytes.
(gdb) whatis x
type = long double

> this behavior. Thus there is no way to find its value. Is this limitation
> known
I would guess it is known, and that it is just waiting for someone to 
fix it it ;)

Andrew