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From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
To: drow@false.org (Daniel Jacobowitz)
Cc: vladimir@codesourcery.com (Vladimir Prus), gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [2/10] Remove &builtin_type_ from tdep code         (amd64/s390/sparc64)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706131356.l5DDur80016141@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070613133702.GA24327@caradoc.them.org> from "Daniel Jacobowitz" at Jun 13, 2007 09:37:02 AM

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:17:09PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:06:11PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > > > However, this macro is not fully equivalent; in particular it
> > > > is no longer possible to use &builtin_type_double.
> > > 
> > > You keep saying this, but is it true? :-)
> > 
> > Well, you can take the address, but you won't get the gdbarch-swap
> > effect any more.  So if you were relying on that, it'll break ...
> 
> Right.  Fortunately here we don't need the swap effect, since we have
> the right gdbarch - but I'd forgotten about post_init.

Also, in nearly all the cases an address of a builtin_type_ was taken,
it was in the context of a static initialization expression -- and
*there*, the macro would indeed be an error, as it no longer
represents a constant expression.

Bye,
Ulrich

-- 
  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com


      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-13 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-08 23:15 Ulrich Weigand
2007-06-12 15:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-12 15:57   ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-06-12 15:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-12 16:07   ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-06-13  7:08   ` Vladimir Prus
2007-06-13 13:06     ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-06-13 13:09       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-13 13:17         ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-06-13 13:36           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-13 13:57             ` Ulrich Weigand [this message]

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