Re: [RFA][2/5] New port: Cell BE SPU (valops.c fix)

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-12-06T22:02:36Z

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:21:48PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> I'm reluctant to get into storing original types and having reference
> counts; it's a lot of complexity in the core code to handle
> architectures that are doing odd things.

What about the fact that Vladimir wanted it for memory bitfields too?
Nothing architecture-specific about that.

> I've got unsubmitted patches for GDB that implement a new kind of
> value, whose contents are read and written via functions provided by
> the user, based on a generic closure pointer. Future r2v / v2r
> functions could produce values of this sort, instead of using odd
> bitpos values. So the kludge wouldn't last forever.

Then let's not add the kludge at all.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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