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Re: [PATCH]: Promote float args on i386 (attn Hurd, Cygwin, DJGPP...)
- To: msnyder at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Promote float args on i386 (attn Hurd, Cygwin, DJGPP...)
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 06:51:48 -0400 (EDT)
- CC: cgf at cygnus dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, kettenis at gnu dot org, jtc at redback dot com, nsd at cygnus dot com
- References: <200005120557.WAA05792@cleaver.cygnus.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 22:57:53 -0700 (PDT)
>
> From the evidence, it appears that i386-gcc passes floats on the
> stack after promoting them to doubles. At least I've verified this
> on Linux, Solaris and Unixware. This patch fixes five testsuite
> failures by making GDB pass floats as doubles when it calls a
> target function. I'd appreciate verification / approval from the
> maintainers of other x86 platforms such as Hurd, DJGPP, Cygwin,
> BSD etc.
Could you please identify the tests in the test suite, or post a short
test program and a GDB session script, that could be used to test this
problem?