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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:49:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: One more GDB for DJGPP little oddity
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

> > What's wrong with having 12 bytes displayed?
> 
> I think, it is misleading to print 12 bytes, for a register that only 
> containes 10 bytes. The additional 2 bytes are garbage. 

But how is gdb supposed to know that? sizeof(long double) *is* 12, after
all, and the p /x commands asks for display as single bytes. In that
special case, I fail to see any error in displaying the two 'fill' bytes,
additionally.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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