Re: [rfc][23/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Platform-neutral types for internal variables

Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-02T12:43:46Z

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 07:51:08PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> One problem is the $_ variable, which holds a pointer value. To
> allow using a platform-neutral type for this, I'm introducing a
> new platform-neutral pointer type builtin_type_void_ptr. The
> lenght of this type is chosen so that it can hold every CORE_ADDR
> value.

I don't think this is a good idea. Target-specific code should not be
required to correctly handle jumbo pointers, e.g. in "(gdb) print
foo ($_)". In a command function, we must already have some idea of
what the associated architecture is (e.g. to initialize the
architecture used by the expression evaluator); why not use that?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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