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From: "Dieter Buerssner" <buers AT gmx DOT de>
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:03:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: One more GDB for DJGPP little oddity
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On 10 Apr 00, at 16:49, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> 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.

Gdb knows already, that floating point registers are 10 bytes. This 
can be seen by info float, that displays the 10 bytes, while p /x 
$st0 displays 12 bytes. p $st0 really asks to print the floating 
point register, and not to dump the memory, where a long double is 
stored. 

But, actually, I don't care to much about this. Info float is more 
useful anyway (but needs more screen space). Really useful would be, 
to be able to use p floatvar, but in general, one can't :-(

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Regards, Dieter