From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixup convenience variables on endian switch
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117034505.GA3057@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437B4291.3050006@st.com>
In addition to Jim's question about structures, and the overall
question of whether this is worth doing...
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:30:41PM +0000, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
> + /* Don't do anything if the endian has not changed.
> + Also disregard FP types because they don't seem to vary with
> + endian - at least, not on i686 Linux or sparc Solaris. */
That's not correct. The only reason it appears that way is because
those targets normally support only one endian, so their gdbarch system
only selects one set of floatformats. Changing endianness can change
the layout of the standard floating point types arbitrarily.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-17 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-16 15:13 Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-17 0:34 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-17 3:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-11-17 13:46 ` Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-17 19:22 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-17 19:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-17 19:54 ` Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-18 1:27 ` Jim Blandy
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