Re: [RFC] Why does ui_out_field_core_addr pad with leading zeroes?

[Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:19:11 +0100, Doug Evans wrote:
> Having stared at both alignments, I don't see aligning the address to
> the right as being easier to read than aligning them to the left, and
> even less so.
> 
> Right Aligned
> 
> (gdb) i b
> Num     Type           Disp Enb            Address What
> 2       breakpoint     keep y             0x40049c in main at hello.c:6
> 3       breakpoint     keep y       0x7ffff7acbe40 <printf>
> (gdb)
> 
> Left Aligned
> 
> (gdb) i b
> Num     Type           Disp Enb Address            What
> 2       breakpoint     keep y   0x40049c           in main at hello.c:6
> 3       breakpoint     keep y   0x7ffff7acbe40     <printf>
> (gdb)

I am definitely for the "Right Aligned" one and against the "Left Aligned"
one.  While analyzing various crash dumps one looks for the same last three
digits (ignoring PIC/PIE different PAGE_SIZE-aligned placement).  Also
sometimes sorting addresses from various sources by hand to find out the
memory layout and having to additionally re-align even the GDB dump itself is
not helpful.


Thanks,
Jan