From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8911 invoked by alias); 24 May 2002 23:20:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8903 invoked from network); 24 May 2002 23:20:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 May 2002 23:20:17 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (reddwarf.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.50]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA20320; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CEEC758.2B52BB2A@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 17:02:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, jimb@redhat.com Subject: Does anybody remember... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00908.txt.bz2 Does anybody remember a Harvard Architecture issue, wherein you did something like take the address of a function, which caused gdb to scrunch the address down into the target-pointer format and then re-expand it into the unified-address format, with possible loss of information in the process? I think Jim Blandy did something to prevent this from happening, but it seems to have crept back in again.