Debugging double values, incorrectly reported

[elagil]

Hello,

I am using an STM32F746 with Chibios 19.1.3 and a J-Link debugger (latest firmware/gdb server) and the latest arm-none-eabi-gdb.

When debugging, I get incorrect double value readout. Integer values are fine, though.

For example, I have a certain variable that reads as follows in gdb:

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p dds.dds_set->fref
$1 = 5.4493361955084617e-315

Especially:

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x/g &(dds.dds_set->fref)
0x20009d90 <dds_set>:   0x41bdcd6500000000

Specifying the size of the value at test does not help:

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x/fg &dds.dds_set->fref
0x20009d90 <dds_set>:   5.4493361955084617e-315

However, I know from caluclations that this value is actually 500e6 in memory. Putting the hex number into a double conversion tool, it indeed reports 500e6.

This is very likely not a ChibiOS problem, but maybe someone still knows a reason.

Compiler options are:

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# Compiler options here.
-O0 -ggdb -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=16 -lm

Thanks in advance,
Adrian

[rew]

Could it be an endianness problem? i.e. what does 0x000000065cdbd41 do as a double (in your conversion tool), or what do you get reported if you poke that value into the memory location?

(update: The E-305 sounds awfully close to the E-308 minimum size reported for a double. That would be consistent with a zero exponent part. ).

[elagil]

I have already tried swapping endianness for gdb, there is a setting for it, but it did not help. My converter gives me this number for the reordered hex key:
8.438553016e-315 (subnormal number)

It is small but not quite the same. I will try to insert some values into memory later and see what gdb makes out of it.