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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFA: move value_from_contents_and_address to value.c
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081122050546.GB4318@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3skplevf4.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

Generally speaking, I'm very happy to see the function being moved
out of ada-lang.c.

> +/* Return a new value constructed from some bytes.  TYPE is the type
> +   of the object.  VALADDR is a pointer to the base of the enclosing
> +   object.  If VALADDR is NULL, the value is marked as lazy.
> +   EMBEDDED_OFFSET is the offset into VALADDR of the bytes making up
> +   the new object.  ADDRESS is the inferior address of the object.  */
> +
> +struct value *
> +value_from_contents_and_address (struct type *type, const gdb_byte *valaddr,
> +				 int embedded_offset, CORE_ADDR address)

I'm wondering whether the offset parameter is really necessary? Would it
be worse to call this function with valaddr+embedded_offset rather
than passing two arguments?

-- 
Joel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-22  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-21 17:07 Tom Tromey
2008-11-22 12:00 ` Michael Snyder
2008-11-22 18:01 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-11-23 22:12   ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-24 23:16   ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-25 11:49     ` Joel Brobecker
2008-11-25 17:06       ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-25 18:23 ` Jerome Guitton
2008-11-25 18:38   ` Jerome Guitton

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