From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>,
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, rearnsha@arm.com,
cagney@redhat.com, kevinb@redhat.com,
fnasser <fnasser@tooth.toronto.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] arm_extract_return_value, big-endian
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 02:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212041002.gB4A27w05408@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:52:12 EST." <3DECD32C.2050403@redhat.com>
fnasser@redhat.com said:
> Humm..., I am having second thoughts about this. Isn't the problem
> you are seeing the same problem of not having the values peoperly
> sign-extended?
No. In this case we really need to copy the least significant 1 (or 2)
bytes into the 1 or 2 bytes in the valbuf target. That means doing a copy
from the higher addresses. So in that respect, the patch is correct.
But it breaks the case where the return value is more than one word.
R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-04 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-06 13:30 Michael Snyder
2002-12-03 7:33 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-12-03 7:41 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-12-04 2:02 ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2003-01-07 23:46 ` Michael Snyder
2003-01-08 9:48 ` Richard Earnshaw
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