From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31609 invoked by alias); 23 May 2012 15:28:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 31598 invoked by uid 22791); 23 May 2012 15:28:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 May 2012 15:28:19 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4NFRuC3032343 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 23 May 2012 11:27:57 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4NFRtx0002879; Wed, 23 May 2012 11:27:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4FBD01FB.5070601@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:28:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Evans CC: Jerome Guitton , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] setting the raw content of a register References: <1337697398-25866-1-git-send-email-guitton@adacore.com> <4FBBA8C8.4030909@redhat.com> <20120522152459.GQ51051@adacore.com> <4FBBBF75.4040605@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00898.txt.bz2 On 05/23/2012 04:21 PM, Doug Evans wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Pedro Alves wrote: >> On 05/22/2012 04:24 PM, Jerome Guitton wrote: >> >>> Pedro Alves (palves@redhat.com): >>> >>>> What about : >>>> >>>> p $f14 = {double} {0xFFF0000000000050} >>> >>> I've been testing with a bareboard PPC, and this needs malloc; >> >> >> Hmm, looks like you're right. I was almost certain there was a way >> to avoid the malloc if the cast/conversion is done to a type of >> the exact same size as the source array, but it's escaping me now >> how. > > IWBN to solve this without adding a new command, the problem is more > general than just assigning values to registers. I may want to use > the value in an expression, for example. Agreed. -- Pedro Alves