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From: dje@google.com (Doug Evans)
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [RFA] remove unnecessary alloca/memcpy in write_memory
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080806044718.E1D301C77BE@localhost> (raw)

Hi.  Any ideas why the call to alloca/memcpy?
[Why not pass myaddr to target_write_memory directly?]

void
write_memory (CORE_ADDR memaddr, const bfd_byte *myaddr, int len)
{
  int status;
  gdb_byte *bytes = alloca (len);
  
  memcpy (bytes, myaddr, len);
  status = target_write_memory (memaddr, bytes, len);
  if (status != 0)
    memory_error (status, memaddr);
}

2008-08-05  Doug Evans  <dje@google.com>

	* corefile.c (write_memory): Remove unnecessary copying.

Index: corefile.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/corefile.c,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.44 corefile.c
--- corefile.c	30 Apr 2008 18:22:37 -0000	1.44
+++ corefile.c	6 Aug 2008 04:45:25 -0000
@@ -350,10 +350,7 @@ void
 write_memory (CORE_ADDR memaddr, const bfd_byte *myaddr, int len)
 {
   int status;
-  gdb_byte *bytes = alloca (len);
-  
-  memcpy (bytes, myaddr, len);
-  status = target_write_memory (memaddr, bytes, len);
+  status = target_write_memory (memaddr, myaddr, len);
   if (status != 0)
     memory_error (status, memaddr);
 }


             reply	other threads:[~2008-08-06  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-06  4:48 Doug Evans [this message]
2008-08-06 11:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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