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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Markus Deuling <deuling@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>,
		Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>,
		GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] Wrap addresses in spu-gdb
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070821111432.GA19013@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CAB6B7.30806@de.ibm.com>

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:56:07AM +0200, Markus Deuling wrote:
> So there are three issues:
> 
> 1) Should add-symbol-file set the function address to -in this case- 0x0 ?
>   SPU hardware would handle both 0x40000 and 0x80000 as 0x0.

I don't know the answer to this one, but the current behavior is
definitely strange.  My guess is that something has wrapped the values
to zero and decided that meant unspecified.

> 2) As seen in my example "add-symbol-file" loads two functions to the same 
> addresses 0x100.
>   Is this valid? 

Yes.

> 3) Should the used addresses in the testcase be changed to, for example,
>   0x10000 and 0x20000? This would work for SPU, too. Or shall I introduce
>   variables for this addresses and set them to a range < SPU_LS_SIZE for
>   SPU targets only?

I think changing the addresses is fine.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-08  6:46 Markus Deuling
2007-08-08 11:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-08 14:12   ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-08-08 17:10     ` Jim Blandy
2007-08-09 10:39     ` Markus Deuling
2007-08-20 18:42       ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-08-21  9:57         ` Markus Deuling
2007-08-21 11:14           ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-08-27 13:01             ` Markus Deuling
2007-08-27 14:32               ` Ulrich Weigand

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