From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: Jimmy Guo <guo@cup.hp.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: (patch) hpjyg23: gdbtypes.[ch] & values.c
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <919.945247655@upchuck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3831BAF0.269CEFA1@cygnus.com>
In message < 3831BAF0.269CEFA1@cygnus.com >you write:
> Jimmy Guo wrote:
> >
>
> > >BFD64: I'm not sure this is the right test. Should some characteristic
> > >of the ABFD be tested instead?
> >
> > Suggestion for a better alternative is appreciated.
>
> Hmm, TARGET_PTR_BIT indicates the size of a target C-pointer but doesn't
> help when it comes to the object file.
>
> Checking through the BFD code it looks like there isn't anything to
> determine the address size of the object file being loaded. Sorry.
This information is kept in the architecture/machine structures. See
cpu-hppa.c for examples.
Once you know the architecture/machine you can extract the size of a word,
pointer or byte for the target.
jeff
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1999-11-16 12:17 ` Andrew Cagney
1999-12-15 1:00 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
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