From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13197 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2006 22:02:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 13185 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Dec 2006 22:02:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:02:27 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gs4qK-0003fb-Tr; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:02:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:02:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jim Blandy Cc: Ulrich Weigand , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA][2/5] New port: Cell BE SPU (valops.c fix) Message-ID: <20061206220220.GA14086@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Blandy , Ulrich Weigand , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <200612061629.kB6GTROh021274@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-12/txt/msg00080.txt.bz2 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