From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove an instance of MAX_REGISTER_SIZE from record-full.c
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d1a9a2k9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69EEE46A-D88C-4B4F-86A2-E35F6DAFD90A@arm.com> (Alan Hayward's message of "Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:34:30 +0000")
Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com> writes:
> - regcache_cooked_read (regcache, entry->u.reg.num, reg);
> - regcache_cooked_write (regcache, entry->u.reg.num,
> - record_full_get_loc (entry));
> - memcpy (record_full_get_loc (entry), reg, entry->u.reg.len);
The original code is about swapping contents of register REG in regcache
and record_full_get_loc (entry), and the length is known entry->u.reg.len.
> + value = regcache->cooked_read_value (entry->u.reg.num);
> + gdb_assert (value != NULL);
> + regcache->cooked_write (entry->u.reg.num, record_full_get_loc (entry));
> + memcpy (record_full_get_loc (entry), value_contents_all (value),
> + entry->u.reg.len);
> + release_value (value);
> + value_free (value);
It is a overkill to use value to swap these two buffers, IMO. How about
xmalloc "reg" instead?
--
Yao (齐尧)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-12 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-12 9:34 Alan Hayward
2017-06-12 11:05 ` Yao Qi [this message]
2017-06-12 13:59 ` Alan Hayward
2017-06-21 9:31 ` Alan Hayward
2017-06-21 10:33 ` Yao Qi
2017-06-21 10:52 ` Pedro Alves
2017-06-22 13:44 ` Alan Hayward
2017-06-22 13:45 ` Pedro Alves
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