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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>,
	 Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>,
	 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Subject: Re: Per-type architecture (Re: [10/15] Basic value access routines)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906231503.32497.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090623134938.GA12312@caradoc.them.org>

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:49:38, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:41:22AM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > - for values of bitfield type, the bitfield byte order (as you mention)
> 
> We don't actually need the architecture for this, given the type.  But
> that's only because the way we record this in types requires the
> architecture when building the type; I've seriously considered
> rearranging it so that the type was architecture neutral and the value
> architecture dependent.  But it seems too fragile to touch without a
> better reason...

Would sharing of objfiles between inferiors be a reason?  I can picture
GDB debugging two inferiors with (maybe slightly or not) different
gdbarchs loading the same shared object.

-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-09 15:20 [10/15] Basic value access routines Ulrich Weigand
2009-06-15 16:35 ` Doug Evans
2009-06-15 16:59   ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-06-22 20:32     ` Per-type architecture (Re: [10/15] Basic value access routines) Ulrich Weigand
2009-06-22 20:59       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-06-23  0:41         ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-06-23 13:49           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-06-23 14:02             ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2009-06-23 17:06             ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-06-23 17:30               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-06-23 15:55           ` Doug Evans
2009-06-23 16:42             ` Mark Kettenis
2009-06-23 16:53               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-06-23 16:57             ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-06-23 17:36               ` Doug Evans
2009-06-24 15:31     ` [10/15] Basic value access routines Tom Tromey
2009-06-24 15:46       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-06-24 16:26         ` Doug Evans
2009-06-24 19:41           ` Tom Tromey

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