From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: brobecker@adacore.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA/i386] Functions returning TYPE_CODE_ARRAY types ...
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510091912.j99JCrxB007502@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051008075513.GC22319@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:55:13 -0700)
> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:55:13 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> One of our users just came across this on an i386-linux machine.
> He tried to do a "finish" on a function that returns an array whose
> size is statically known. This is not possible in C, but this can be
> done in Ada. Consider the following code:
Dunno any Ada, but...
>
> The problem is that the the i386 struct-return code did not expect
> a function whose return type is a TYPE_CODE_ARRAY. This case is not
> mentioned as far as I could tell in the ABI, but the array is returned
> the same way records would be.
>
> The attached patch implements this.
>
> 2005-10-07 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> * i386-tdep.c (i386_reg_struct_return_p): Allow array types as well.
> (i386_return_value): Add handling for functions that return array
> types.
...this makes sense to me. Please go ahead.
Mark
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2005-10-08 7:55 Joel Brobecker
2005-10-09 19:13 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
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