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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/printcmd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/printcmd.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/printcmd.c b/gdb/printcmd.c index 77a05e5..b2b7994 100644 --- a/gdb/printcmd.c +++ b/gdb/printcmd.c @@ -420,7 +420,18 @@ print_scalar_formatted (const gdb_byte *valaddr, struct type *type, valaddr = converted_float_bytes.data (); } - switch (options->format) + /* Printing a non-float type as 'f' will interpret the data as if it were + of a floating-point type of the same length, if that exists. Otherwise, + the data is printed as integer. */ + char format = options->format; + if (format == 'f' && TYPE_CODE (type) != TYPE_CODE_FLT) + { + type = float_type_from_length (type); + if (TYPE_CODE (type) != TYPE_CODE_FLT) + format = 0; + } + + switch (format) { case 'o': print_octal_chars (stream, valaddr, len, byte_order); @@ -440,7 +451,6 @@ print_scalar_formatted (const gdb_byte *valaddr, struct type *type, } /* FALLTHROUGH */ case 'f': - type = float_type_from_length (type); print_floating (valaddr, type, stream); break; @@ -478,7 +488,7 @@ print_scalar_formatted (const gdb_byte *valaddr, struct type *type, break; default: - error (_("Undefined output format \"%c\"."), options->format); + error (_("Undefined output format \"%c\"."), format); } } |