From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20520 invoked by alias); 23 Oct 2012 02:29:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 20512 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Oct 2012 02:29:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:29:28 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9N2TRBs020578 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:29:27 -0400 Received: from spoyarek (vpn1-7-36.sin2.redhat.com [10.67.7.36]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9N2TOOa012570; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:29:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:29:00 -0000 From: Siddhesh Poyarekar To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] bitpos expansion summary reloaded Message-ID: <20121023075834.130961dc@spoyarek> In-Reply-To: <20121023015835.GA14007@host2.jankratochvil.net> References: <20120927190053.1e7de264@spoyarek> <20120929173938.GA2987@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120929181141.GA4009@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120930065211.GA21118@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121003184155.03dceed4@spoyarek> <20121003195627.GA17283@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121004071314.GA4292@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121021130546.02ea680c@spoyarek> <87y5iygrrk.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20121023013438.GA13413@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121023015835.GA14007@host2.jankratochvil.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00395.txt.bz2 On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:58:35 +0200, Jan wrote: > The most easy would be to extend to 64-bit any automvaribles handling > TYPE_LENGTH (and some similar fields also being extended to 64-bit). > But this would include 64-bit lengths of scalar types which has been > considered as both performance wasteful and needless work to change > them all. Most of the warnings could be resolved by adding explicit casts wherever we know for sure that the value is safe to truncate. Siddhesh