Re: Question: Checking register value in buffer

Richard Henderson
2005-05-19T02:23:16Z

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:04:44PM +1000, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> LONGEST rav = extract_signed_integer (buf, 8)
>
> and then do the test using integer arithmetics. But then I'm not guarantied
> that LONGEST is at least 64bit long, am I.

It had better be, or the rest of alpha_next_pc is broken too.

Since it isn't, or isn't reported to be, you might as well
assume it is large enough.

> How are these sort of checks usually done in GDB?

In gcc-land we have a "need_64bit_hwint" bit in config.gcc, and it
is set for targets that require the equivalent of LONGEST be at
least 64 bits, or we error out of configure.

Dunno what's done in gdb.

r~