Re: [PATCH] Address FIXME in i386-tdep.c:i386_extract_struct_value_address

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> We know for sure here that we're not dealing with a cooked register.

That's what you think :-)  It's more correct here to use the cooked 
interface.

Andrew


> Checked in.
> 
> Mark
> 
> Index: ChangeLog
> from  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
> 
> 	* i386-tdep.c (i386_extract_struct_value_address): Use
> 	regcache_raw_read_unsigned instead of
> 	regcache_cooked_read_unsigned since we know that the register
> 	we're reading isn't a pseudo register.  Rename variable 'val' into
> 	the more descriptive 'addr'.
> 
> Index: i386-tdep.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/i386-tdep.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.88
> diff -u -p -r1.88 i386-tdep.c
> --- i386-tdep.c 17 Sep 2002 20:42:01 -0000 1.88
> +++ i386-tdep.c 26 Oct 2002 14:39:42 -0000
> @@ -1039,25 +1039,17 @@ i386_store_return_value (struct type *ty
>      }
>  }
>  
> -/* Extract from an array REGBUF containing the (raw) register state
> -   the address in which a function should return its structure value,
> -   as a CORE_ADDR.  */
> +/* Extract from REGCACHE, which contains the (raw) register state, the
> +   address in which a function should return its structure value, as a
> +   CORE_ADDR.  */
>  
>  static CORE_ADDR
>  i386_extract_struct_value_address (struct regcache *regcache)
>  {
> -  /* NOTE: cagney/2002-08-12: Replaced a call to
> -     regcache_raw_read_as_address() with a call to
> -     regcache_cooked_read_unsigned().  The old, ...as_address function
> -     was eventually calling extract_unsigned_integer (via
> -     extract_address) to unpack the registers value.  The below is
> -     doing an unsigned extract so that it is functionally equivalent.
> -     The read needs to be cooked as, otherwise, it will never
> -     correctly return the value of a register in the [NUM_REGS
> -     .. NUM_REGS+NUM_PSEUDO_REGS) range.  */
> -  ULONGEST val;
> -  regcache_cooked_read_unsigned (regcache, LOW_RETURN_REGNUM, &val);
> -  return val;
> +  ULONGEST addr;
> +
> +  regcache_raw_read_unsigned (regcache, LOW_RETURN_REGNUM, &addr);
> +  return addr;
>  }
>  \f
>  
>