From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Eliminate TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C49987F.1F00@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020119094718.A1404@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:58:36AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > All multi-arch targets (yep, including the i386) allow the byte order to
> > be selected at run time. This means that the macro
> > TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE which was used by non-multi-arch targets is
> > obsolete.
> >
> > The attached patch eliminates that macro. I've tested it on a
> > multi-arch target and I don't think it breaks non-multi-arch targets.
> >
> > Anyway, I intend committing this in a few days.
> > Andrew
>
> Hmm, I don't know. Do we really want to do this? This allows, for
> instance, 'set endian big' on i386. That may someday make someone
> think that GDB supports such a beast, on the off chance one is ever
> made.
There's a fairly good chance that gdb WOULD support such a
beast (on the off chance that one is ever made). If we've
done our jobs and used "extract_unsigned_integer" etc.
instead of reading things directly from memory...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-19 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-18 21:59 Andrew Cagney
2002-01-19 6:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-19 8:06 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2002-01-19 8:57 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-19 9:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-20 10:33 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-20 10:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-20 11:00 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-20 11:05 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-20 11:18 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-20 0:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-20 11:32 ` Andrew Cagney
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