Re: [RFC] setting the raw content of a register

Pedro Alves
2012-05-23T15:28:33Z

On 05/23/2012 04:21 PM, Doug Evans wrote:

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 05/22/2012 04:24 PM, Jerome Guitton wrote:
>>
>>> Pedro Alves (palves@redhat.com):
>>>
>>>> What about :
>>>>
>>>> p $f14 = {double} {0xFFF0000000000050}
>>>
>>> I've been testing with a bareboard PPC, and this needs malloc;
>>
>>
>> Hmm, looks like you're right. I was almost certain there was a way
>> to avoid the malloc if the cast/conversion is done to a type of
>> the exact same size as the source array, but it's escaping me now
>> how.
>
> IWBN to solve this without adding a new command, the problem is more
> general than just assigning values to registers. I may want to use
> the value in an expression, for example.

Agreed.

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Pedro Alves