From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <919.945247655@upchuck>
References: <3831BAF0.269CEFA1@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-q4/msg00382.html

  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