From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PING (docs)] Re: [PATCH] [1/2] Add new 'z' format for print command
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bo5rx59d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51EFEFB1.4070408@broadcom.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:16:01 +0100
> From: "Andrew Burgess" <aburgess@broadcom.com>
> cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> On 24/07/2013 3:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > More importantly, I have a difficulty understanding what does
> > "hexadecimal zero padded to the size ..." mean. More accurately, if
> > my interpretation of what you say (that 'z' produces "00"s for
> > non-existing data, then why does this "padding" make sense, when we
> > are targeting a human consumer?
>
> I'm not sure I agree with the "non-existing data" part of your
> statement, for example a 4-byte register containing the value 1 (one)
> when printed with /x would print 0x1, with /z it would print 0x00000001,
> surely the leading 0s do exist, we just normally don't print them.
Then please say "zero padded on the left". I thought you were talking
about padding at the right. Sorry for my misunderstanding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-24 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-08 17:30 Andrew Burgess
2013-07-10 17:30 ` Tom Tromey
2013-07-11 15:20 ` Andrew Burgess
2013-07-18 7:57 ` Andrew Burgess
2013-07-24 10:07 ` [PING (docs)] " Andrew Burgess
2013-07-24 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-24 15:16 ` Andrew Burgess
2013-07-24 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-07-24 17:08 ` Andrew Burgess
2013-07-24 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-25 10:18 ` Andrew Burgess
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