From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: addresses and pointers may be different sizes while printing Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:32:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B4B6674.70801@cygnus.com> References: <20010628223546.BDE7F5E9CB@zwingli.cygnus.com> <3B43F682.1040502@cygnus.com> <3B45572F.3020708@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00237.html > These are probably something to do separate to these patches but they do >> need doing. At present, there is nothing explaining (and testing) GDB's >> behavour on a harvard architecture. > > > Oh, I got confused. What I posted there was a rationale for my change > to value_cast, which (I think) is more than adequately documented with > the patch above. What you want is an explanation of our whole > philosophy regarding pointers, addresses, separate address spaces, and > so on. > > I'll chew on it. Perhaps now's the time to restart the discussion of > Harvard Architecture machines, put together a coherent picture of how > things are supposed to behave, and document it. While you're chewing away (:-) could you file a CR anyway? That way this thread has ``closure''. Andrew