Change how "print/x" displays floating-point value
Currently, "print/x" will display a floating-point value by first casting it to an integer type. This yields weird results like: (gdb) print/x 1.5 $1 = 0x1 This has confused users multiple times -- see PR gdb/16242, where there are several dups. I've also seen some confusion from this internally at AdaCore. The manual says: 'x' Regard the bits of the value as an integer, and print the integer in hexadecimal. ... which seems more useful. So, perhaps what happened is that this was incorrectly implemented (or maybe correctly implemented and then regressed, as there don't seem to be any tests). This patch fixes the bug. There was a previous discussion where we agreed to preserve the old behavior: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/gdb-patches/2017-06/msg00314.html However, I think it makes more sense to follow the manual. Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16242
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