Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 08:41:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: One more GDB for DJGPP little oddity
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Pierre Muller wrote:

>    if I have a long double var named x of value 1e+4893
> if I print it out
> 
>   "p x"
> I get
>   " 1e+4893"
> 
>   but once loaded onto FPU stack 
> I get +Inf on the right part of the display !

In what version of GDB?

Please also post a short test program that can be used to reproduce
this.

>   on the contrary p /x $st0 shows  12 bytes whereas only ten are significant
> (this is better in info float !)

What's wrong with having 12 bytes displayed?