Re: [PATCH 0/5] Drop float32/float64 accessors used by gdbstub code

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> We used to make a distinction between 'float64'/'float32' types and
> the 'uint64_t'/'uint32_t' types, requiring special conversion
> operations to go between them.  We've now dropped this distinction as
> unnecessary, and the 'float*' types remain primarily for
> documentation purposes when used in places like the function
> prototypes of TCG helper functions.
>
> This means that there's no need for special gdb_get_float64() and
> gdb_get_float32() functions to write float64 or float32 values to the
> GDB protocol buffer; we can just use gdb_get_reg64() and
> gdb_get_reg32().
>
> Similarly, for reading a value out of the GDB buffer into a float64
> or float32 we can use ldq_p() or ldl_p() and need not use ldfq_p()
> or ldfl_p().
>
> This patchseries drops the use of the gdb_get_float* and ldf*
> functions from the three targets that were using them, and then
> removes the now-unused functions from gdbstub.h and bswap.h.

Queued to gdbstub/next, thanks.

-- 
Alex Bennée