From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] gdb extension for Harvard architectures
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:17:00 -0000
Message-id: <3BBB641D.4090607@cygnus.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00057.html

> Without change.  My contention is that the user is almost never going to
>> want to do what you just described.  Why make what the user is going to
>> want to do hard?
> 
> 
> This whole change was prompted by a user's request to be able
> to do just that.  Well, actually, he wanted to be able to do
> 
>         set *(@code short *) myfunction = 0xabcd


I think everyone is in agreement that not being able to frob an 
instruction location is a ``breakage''.  Can I guess they entered:

	set *(short *) myfunc = 0xabcd

I would.  And as I'm doing now, I would also be asking why I have to 
explicitly specify @code, when the cast operator already knows that my 
pointer is designating code space.

Andrew