From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/RFC] Restore old handling of multi-register variables
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110062159.55379.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111006201053.GS19246@adacore.com>
On Thursday 06 October 2011 21:10:53, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > This is a bit a step backwards in that it doesn't allow
> > marking parts of the value as unavailable when the type
> > is longer than one register. get_frame_register_value
> > was invented to allow for partially available registers.
>
> I understand.
>
> The bummer part is that I'm entering my busiest time of the year,
> and I haven't followed all this close enough to whip up a quick fix.
> So I'll keep that on my list to look at. Note that AVR will
> have to remain completely broken. We'll just have to add a note
> if we release 7.4 with that problem.
Well, your patch doesn't really make it worse, so I won't
object if you want to put it in. It's not perfect, but it's
better than what we have now, which doesn't work even
for fully available values.
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-06 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-03 21:03 Joel Brobecker
2011-10-06 17:55 ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-06 20:11 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-06 21:00 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2011-10-07 16:38 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-07 16:52 ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-22 14:48 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-25 19:34 ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-25 20:37 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-25 21:09 ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-26 21:44 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-26 22:11 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-27 15:57 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-27 17:51 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-27 2:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-27 11:10 ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-27 17:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-31 3:17 ` [RFA] read_frame_register_value and big endian arches Joel Brobecker
2011-11-07 19:42 ` Pedro Alves
2011-11-07 21:24 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-11-10 17:15 ` Checked in: " Joel Brobecker
2011-11-16 18:23 ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-11-18 2:01 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-11-18 17:40 ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-11-18 19:41 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-11-18 20:06 ` [commit] " Ulrich Weigand
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