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Re: [PATCH]: Remove sparc-linux long double size override.


From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:26:05 -0400

> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:19:40PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > There isn't a way to really detect this at run time, but I
> > think it's better to move forward and delete this override
> > and get current systems right rather than support ancient
> > ones.
> 
> FWIW, GDB will still mostly work with 64-bit long double once this is
> applied (we went through the same thing for PPC).  It will just be a
> little confused because the type "long double" from debug info will
> appear to be a double instead.

Thanks for the info, I didn't know that.

> > Ok to apply?
> > 
> > 2008-05-11  David S. Miller  <davem@davemloft.net>
> > 
> > 	* sparc-linux-tdep.c (sparc32_linux_init_abi): Remove
> > 	long double size override, Linux does use 128-bit now.
> 
> Yes, this is fine.

Installed, thanks for reviewing.


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