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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA][2/5] New port: Cell BE SPU (valops.c fix)
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061206220220.GA14086@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lklkoh3n.fsf@codesourcery.com>

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:21:48PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> I'm reluctant to get into storing original types and having reference
> counts; it's a lot of complexity in the core code to handle
> architectures that are doing odd things.

What about the fact that Vladimir wanted it for memory bitfields too?
Nothing architecture-specific about that.

> I've got unsubmitted patches for GDB that implement a new kind of
> value, whose contents are read and written via functions provided by
> the user, based on a generic closure pointer.  Future r2v / v2r
> functions could produce values of this sort, instead of using odd
> bitpos values.  So the kludge wouldn't last forever.

Then let's not add the kludge at all.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-06 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-11 18:38 Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-22 14:15 ` [PING] " Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-22 14:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-22 19:25   ` Jim Blandy
2006-11-22 19:28     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-22 19:55       ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-22 20:30         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-22 20:43           ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-22 20:57             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-22 22:13               ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-22 22:48                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-23 13:57                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-23 16:16                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-23 17:55                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-23 19:59                         ` Mark Kettenis
2006-11-24  2:08                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-24 15:51                             ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-28 14:56                               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-27 19:31                         ` Jim Blandy
2006-11-27 22:06                           ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-27 22:31                             ` Jim Blandy
2006-11-27 23:23                               ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-11-27 23:59                                 ` Jim Blandy
2006-11-28  0:01                                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-12-06 16:29                                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-12-06 16:43                                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-12-06 17:10                                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-12-06 17:12                                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-12-07  6:34                                           ` Vladimir Prus
2006-12-06 21:21                                     ` Jim Blandy
2006-12-06 22:02                                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-12-06 23:24                                         ` Jim Blandy
2006-12-06 23:16                                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2006-12-06 23:39                                         ` Jim Blandy
2006-12-08 15:50                                           ` Ulrich Weigand

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