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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch rfc] s/extract_address/extract_unsigned_integer/ for solib
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1030522194129.ZM31026@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> "[patch rfc] s/extract_address/extract_unsigned_integer/ for solib" (May 22,  3:01pm)

On May 22,  3:01pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> This does the s/extract_address/extract_unsigned_integer/ change to the 
> solib files.
> 
> One bit bugs me - IRIX.  It's doing an unsigned extract when MIPS is 
> ment to always sign extend an address.  It's very tempting to instead 
> make that code always do signextended extracts (I don't have access to 
> an IRIX 4 box though).
> 
> thoughts?

It looks okay to me.

I agree that extract_mips_address() in solib-irix.c probably ought to
be using extract_signed_integer(), but I too am reluctant to change it
without testing.

Why do you need an IRIX 4 box?  Wouldn't IRIX 6 work?

Kevin


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-22 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-22 19:01 Andrew Cagney
2003-05-22 19:47 ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2003-05-23 17:59   ` Andrew Cagney
2003-06-01 23:02     ` Andrew Cagney

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