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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c b/gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c index a82c95e..95d127e 100644 --- a/gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c +++ b/gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c @@ -896,15 +896,13 @@ ppc_linux_init_abi (struct gdbarch_info info, { struct gdbarch_tdep *tdep = gdbarch_tdep (gdbarch); - /* NOTE: jimb/2004-03-26: The System V ABI PowerPC Processor - Supplement says that long doubles are sixteen bytes long. - However, as one of the known warts of its ABI, PPC GNU/Linux uses - eight-byte long doubles. GCC only recently got 128-bit long - double support on PPC, so it may be changing soon. The - Linux[sic] Standards Base says that programs that use 'long - double' on PPC GNU/Linux are non-conformant. */ - /* NOTE: cagney/2005-01-25: True for both 32- and 64-bit. */ - set_gdbarch_long_double_bit (gdbarch, 8 * TARGET_CHAR_BIT); + /* PPC GNU/Linux uses either 64-bit or 128-bit long doubles; where + 128-bit, they are IBM long double, not IEEE quad long double as + in the System V ABI PowerPC Processor Supplement. We can safely + let them default to 128-bit, since the debug info will give the + size of type actually used in each case. */ + set_gdbarch_long_double_bit (gdbarch, 16 * TARGET_CHAR_BIT); + set_gdbarch_long_double_format (gdbarch, floatformats_ibm_long_double); /* Handle PPC GNU/Linux 64-bit function pointers (which are really function descriptors) and 32-bit secure PLT entries. */ |