From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Cc: kevinb@redhat.com, cagney@redhat.com
Subject: [RFC] fixing extract_struct_value_address
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D6418C5.FBF117D@redhat.com> (raw)
Problem: Find a function's return value when it is a struct
returned by reference (thru a pointer).
Solution level one: Take the value of the register that was
used by the caller to pass the struct return address.
Shortcoming: that register isn't preserved, so may be clobbered.
Solution level two: Save the struct_return address when it
is passed to store_struct_return (or push_arguments), and
recover it when it is needed by extract_struct_value_address.
Shortcoming: Not reentrant. Nested function calls will clobber it.
Proposed solution: create a stack structure, and "push" the
struct_return address in store_struct_return, popping it in
extract_return_address. If you can't find it on the stack,
then use the value of the appropriate arg0 register.
I think this should work for most targets, so the code for
managing the stack can be shared.
What do you think?
next reply other threads:[~2002-08-21 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-21 16:05 Michael Snyder [this message]
2002-08-21 18:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-21 19:04 ` Michael Snyder
2002-08-21 22:43 ` Jim Blandy
2002-08-22 11:12 ` Michael Snyder
2002-08-22 11:39 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-08-22 8:38 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-08-22 10:08 ` Elena Zannoni
2002-08-22 11:17 ` Michael Snyder
2002-08-22 13:04 ` Andrew Cagney
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