Re: [RFA] valops.c: don't coerce vectors.

Elena Zannoni
2002-05-02T19:04:35Z

Elena Zannoni writes:
>
> I hope this is the last of the AltiVec series.
>
> Elena
>
> 2002-04-29 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
>
> * valops.c (value_arg_coerce): Don't coerce arrays to pointers if
> we are dealing with vectors.
>
>

I committed this, given that the file seems unmaintained.

Elena

> Index: valops.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/uberbaum/gdb/valops.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.55
> diff -u -p -r1.55 valops.c
> --- valops.c 26 Apr 2002 03:37:42 -0000 1.55
> +++ valops.c 29 Apr 2002 21:45:55 -0000
> @@ -1190,8 +1190,12 @@ value_arg_coerce (struct value *arg, str
> type = lookup_pointer_type (type);
> break;
> case TYPE_CODE_ARRAY:
> + /* Arrays are coerced to pointers to their first element, unless
> + they are vectors, in which case we want to leave them alone,
> + because they are passed by value. */
> if (current_language->c_style_arrays)
> - type = lookup_pointer_type (TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type));
> + if (!TYPE_VECTOR (type))
> + type = lookup_pointer_type (TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type));
> break;