From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA]: gdbarch FETCH_POINTER_ARGUMENT
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ED7CE26.9080508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030530201903.GA18029@nevyn.them.org>
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:26:28PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>>
>
>> >Here's an updated patch. The more I looked at the "struct type *type"
>> >argument, the less I understood about how it should be used. I assume it
>> >would only be used, so far, on i386, but I'm easily confused by stacks and
>> >registers (and how things are stored there), so any pointers would be
>> >appreciated.
>
>>
>> The patch is almost fine. Change it to `F' instead of `f' - so that a
>> predicate is also available.
>>
>> For some background, see: Pointers Are Not Always Addresses
>> http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdbint_9.html#SEC71
>>
>> The d10v is an example.
>
>
> Shouldn't TYPE be used? I guess I'm not understanding why you wanted
> it to be there...
Strictly speaking POINTER_TO_ADDRESS should be used. The only targets
that absolutly need this though are the d10v and avr (which weren't
modified).
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-30 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-19 3:12 Adam Fedor
2003-05-20 20:07 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-20 20:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-05-20 20:28 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-22 19:16 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-30 3:05 ` Adam Fedor
2003-05-30 19:26 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-30 20:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-05-30 21:33 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-06-01 4:02 ` Adam Fedor
2003-06-01 22:55 ` Andrew Cagney
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