From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][21/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Platform-neutral builtin_type_void
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080913172220.GI3714@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809071558.m87FwKiG005931@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
> 2.) lookup_pointer_type gets an gdbarch argument (or maybe just a
> "size" argument, as that is what we really need)
>
> In this case, we'd probably have to extend the caching mechanims
> to cache pointers of multiple different sizes (note that to some
> extent that exists today via TYPE_CHAIN, see make_qualified_type).
>
> Then, there wouldn't really be any strict reason any more why
> we couldn't allow making pointer types to platform-neutral types ...
I like this approach as well - I think that passing the gdbarch is fine.
The lookup_pointer_type could iterate over the TYPE_CHAIN list until
it finds a pointer of the right size (or create a new one if not).
--
Joel
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2008-08-31 17:53 [rfc][00/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros uweigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][30/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Remove gdbarch_name_of_malloc uweigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][32/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Update value-printing code uweigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][16/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Ada fixed/double conversions uweigand
2008-09-05 23:13 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][24/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Platform-neutral generic integers uweigand
2008-09-06 3:15 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-07 16:44 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][01/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Unused write_exp_msymbol parameters uweigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][02/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Introduce expression architecture uweigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][33/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Default target word size uweigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][11/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Update ax-gdb expression evaluator uweigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][07/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Use expression arch for size_t type uweigand
2008-09-05 18:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-05 20:16 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][13/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Update EVAL_SKIP dummy return type uweigand
2008-09-05 22:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-07 15:40 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-07 15:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][15/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Dereferencing of integer types uweigand
2008-09-01 7:19 ` Tom Tromey
2008-09-02 23:34 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-05 23:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][29/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Update valarith.c routines uweigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][09/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Make argument promotion explicit uweigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][21/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Platform-neutral builtin_type_void uweigand
2008-09-06 0:38 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-06 4:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-06 14:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-07 15:59 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-13 15:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-13 17:23 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][23/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Platform-neutral types for internal variables uweigand
2008-09-02 12:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-02 21:55 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-02 22:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-02 23:53 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][05/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Replace LA_BOOL_TYPE macro uweigand
2008-09-05 18:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][19/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Ada range type handling uweigand
2008-09-06 0:24 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-07 15:43 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-09 18:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-09 20:21 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-09 22:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-09 22:32 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-10 6:09 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-10 9:51 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-31 17:52 ` [rfc][26/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Use per-frame architecture uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][06/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Make OP_COMPLEX type explicit uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][37/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Delete the macros uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][10/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Use expression arch for argument promotion uweigand
2008-09-05 22:39 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][27/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Update C++ ABI handling uweigand
2008-09-05 20:18 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][03/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Extract bitstring subscript handling uweigand
2008-09-05 18:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-05 20:17 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][14/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Implicit dereferencing of references uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][18/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Ada System.Address special handling uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][22/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Platform-neutral "true char" types uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][17/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Ada pos_atr result type uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][12/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Remove redundant coerce_enum/coerce_number uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][36/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Use target arch in solib code uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][04/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Introduce java_language_arch_info uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][08/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Make pointer arithmetic explicit uweigand
2008-09-02 12:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-02 21:48 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-02 21:52 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-04 22:32 ` Tom Tromey
2008-09-05 18:21 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][20/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Objective-C expression evaluation uweigand
2008-08-31 17:53 ` [rfc][35/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Use target arch in bsd-uthread.c uweigand
2008-08-31 18:12 ` [rfc][34/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Use target arch in procfs.c uweigand
2008-08-31 18:13 ` [rfc][31/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Inferior call argument types uweigand
2008-09-06 1:37 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-31 18:15 ` [rfc][28/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Update infcall.c routines uweigand
2008-09-02 12:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-02 21:56 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-31 18:16 ` [rfc][25/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros: Update *-tdep.c files uweigand
2008-08-31 22:20 ` [rfc][00/37] Eliminate builtin_type_ macros Mark Kettenis
2008-09-01 3:46 ` David Miller
2008-09-01 18:57 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-02 10:22 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-09-02 12:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-02 21:37 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-02 12:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-02 22:02 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-02 22:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-06 3:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-07 16:43 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-09 18:05 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-09 20:21 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-09 21:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-09 22:12 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-10 6:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-10 9:43 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-10 16:25 ` Joel Brobecker
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