Re: [RFC] Implementation of DW_OP_deref and DW_OP_deref_size operators

Jim Blandy
2002-07-05T03:27:06Z

Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> writes:
> Yes! However, pointers are not always unsigned. I think on some
> 32-bit ABIs for 64-bit MIPS chips they need to be signed. Andrew will
> know the facts.

But it doesn't matter whether pointers are unsigned. The Dwarf spec
says that DW_OP_deref pushes a value which is "the size of an address
on the target machine", which is the full width of a Dwarf
expression stack element; it doesn't need to be extended. And it
further says that DW_OP_deref_size zero-extends its argument. So the
patch looks correct to me.