From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
"tom@tromey.com" <tom@tromey.com>,
Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>,
"cel@us.ibm.com" <cel@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ver 2] PowerPC: fix _Float128 type output string
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:17:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leiqtg94.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a63aace19441058b74c8f21e22c02025f0cb3e32.camel@de.ibm.com> (Ulrich Weigand's message of "Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:26:36 +0000")
> This matters as it changes how GDB prints the type. If your source
> code has e.g. a variable definition like
> long double x;
> and you do e.g. "ptype x" in GDB, you'd expect to see "long double".
> However, with the GCC hack typedef in place, you actually see
> "_Float128" instead. This not only confuses the user, it actually
> causes a bunch of GDB test suite failures currently.
Ok, I understand now. Thank you, & thanks for your patience.
The patch is OK by me.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-17 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-05 15:28 [PATCH] " Carl Love
2023-04-05 20:18 ` Carl Love
2023-04-07 21:51 ` Kevin Buettner
2023-04-10 15:43 ` Carl Love
2023-04-10 15:46 ` [PATCH ver 2] " Carl Love
2023-04-10 16:01 ` Carl Love
2023-04-13 14:18 ` Tom Tromey
2023-04-13 16:13 ` Carl Love
2023-04-13 16:35 ` Carl Love
2023-04-13 17:12 ` Tom Tromey
2023-04-13 22:08 ` Carl Love
2023-04-17 15:45 ` [PATCH ver 3] " Carl Love
2023-04-18 10:18 ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-04-14 13:44 ` [PATCH ver 2] " Tom Tromey
2023-04-14 15:35 ` Carl Love
2023-04-17 10:26 ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-04-17 20:17 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2023-04-18 10:17 ` Ulrich Weigand
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