From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14058 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2005 22:38:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14048 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2005 22:38:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 26 Mar 2005 22:38:12 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DFJvk-0000K3-E1; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:38:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:38:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: Don't try to take address of SIMD vectors Message-ID: <20050326223856.GA1151@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Blandy , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00352.txt.bz2 On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:26:17AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote: > > This is, in some sense, a followup to: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-05/msg00027.html > > No regressions on i686-pc-linux-gnu or powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu; > fixes vector subscripting on PowerPC E500 SIMD vectors. > > 2004-08-09 Jim Blandy > > * eval.c (evaluate_subexp_with_coercion): Don't try to produce a > pointer to the value's first element if it's a SIMD vector value, > not an ordinary array. Hi Jim, I see that this patch was never checked in. I can't convince myself from the above that it's necessary; if you still want it, could you show some examples? Bonus points if they fit in the testsuite. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC