Re: New ARI warning Sat Mar 19 01:54:11 UTC 2011

["Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > I think that all users that require this additional status information
> > should just use the (new) get_frame_register_value, and look at that
> > value's properties.
> > 
> > So I do think that frame_register_read ought to stay deprecated;
> > we need to remove those extraneous frame register routines ...
> 
> Pedro, if you agree, I'll add a comment to that effect next to
> frame_register_read. Alternatively, we could try to reimplement
> frame_register_read using get_frame_register_value, although
> I get the impression that we wanted to start getting away from
> reading into buffers.

Oh, frame_register_read is already implemented in terms of
get_frame_register_value (well, frame_unwind_register_value
really, but that's the same thing).

I agree that the goal should be to push that implementation up
to the callers, and get rid of the buffer-based accessors.

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com