[Bug 1649964] Re: POWER9 128-bit iEEE float point support in GDB

[Steve Langasek]

** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: ubuntu-17.02 => None

** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Matthias Klose (doko) => Taco Screen team (taco-screen-team)

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Title:
  POWER9 128-bit iEEE float point support in GDB

Status in gdb package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  It is missing the 128-bit IEEE floating-point types support in GDB

  These are the commit ids from the patchset already included on
  upstream GDB, they should be available on next gdb release:

  5f3bceb68dd211be977eb61d5f1ea68e7de51b7a    Fix typo in ada_language_arch_info
  ae438bc5c06b770c00f37e4ed244707ce3ab9ff4    Fix TYPE_SPECIFIC_FIELD for types created via arch_type
  88dfca6c43c11dea69db24cfb87e6821e63e29b2    Add some missing arch_..._type helpers
  19f392bc2a93d9e64d063b884cd6eca547c8dad0    Unify init_type and arch_type interface and helpers
  a9ff5f12cff6cd06f74ecf387ac5468984c94c6f    Remove obsolete TYPE_FLAG_... values
  c413c44801e449f1f0b9828b81770e752b8219af    Remove TYPE_NOSIGN "char" hack
  49f190bcb7f074ea2e27d4e967e4fae9ed7dafb6    Add missing format for built-in floating-point types
  9b790ce7227fa346d08a41462119e9a3e93f5e80    Add gdbarch callback to provide formats for debug info float types
  00d5215ecec4fa0a78dcc37fec9425593753eb66    Support 128-bit IEEE floating-point types on Intel and Power

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