From: muller AT ics-crm DOT u-strasbg DOT fr (Pierre Muller)
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Subject: Re: GDB and extended type
Date: 17 Nov 1997 17:30:16 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 971117172725 DOT 3513B-100000 AT is>, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il 
says...
>
>
>On 17 Nov 1997, Pierre Muller wrote:
>
>>     GDB v4.16 does not know how to handle the Intel internal real format 
>> coded in 10 bytes !!
>
>This is a known problem.  GDB was compiled with long double support 
>disabled (by a sad omission).
>
>>     Are there any plans to change that ?
>
>You can do it yourself, if you need it badly enough.  Download the sources
>(v2gnu/gdb416s.zip), edit the file gdb/config.h to change this line: 
>
>        /* #undef HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE */
>
>into this:
>
>        #define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE 1
>
>then build gdb, and live happily ever after!

  I did that but GDB still says 
something like Don't know how to deal with float of 10 bytes

  I took a look inside the sources and the long double type
is expected to be twice the size of the double type (i.e. 2*8=16 not 10 !!)

   So I still don't have the value of my extended !!
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