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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [doc/tracepoint] Add a note for assigning values of inferior to trace state variables
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110916202712.GB17681@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iposvn2o.fsf@gnu.org>

> > this issue can be handle by convert value to (uint64_t), for example:
> > teval $tmp=(uint64_t)a
> 
> Isn't this specific to the platform where this runs?  I don't think we
> should have platform-specific information, and such minor details at
> that, in general sections.

One of the things that struck me when I read the diff is that
I asked myself why this conversion is necessary. The patch is
only a small piece of the documentation, so perhaps the reasons
are clear already.  But otherwise, it might be worth explaining.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-16 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-16  9:07 Hui Zhu
2011-09-16  9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-16 20:37   ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2011-09-17 14:40     ` Hui Zhu
2011-09-21 17:01       ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-16 12:26 ` Pedro Alves

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