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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Jerome Guitton <guitton@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] setting the raw content of a register
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22QTzJTa6MEJecNKdwQCxM-EOsjzi-MyS3UdX89mmRbPZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBBBF75.4040605@redhat.com>

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 04:24 PM, Jerome Guitton wrote:
>
>> Pedro Alves (palves@redhat.com):
>>
>>> What about :
>>>
>>>   p $f14 = {double} {0xFFF0000000000050}
>>
>> I've been testing with a bareboard PPC, and this needs malloc;
>
>
> Hmm, looks like you're right.  I was almost certain there was a way
> to avoid the malloc if the cast/conversion is done to a type of
> the exact same size as the source array, but it's escaping me now
> how.

IWBN to solve this without adding a new command, the problem is more
general than just assigning values to registers.  I may want to use
the value in an expression, for example.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-23 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-22 14:37 Jerome Guitton
2012-05-22 14:55 ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-22 15:25   ` Jerome Guitton
2012-05-22 16:32     ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-23 15:22       ` Doug Evans [this message]
2012-05-23 15:28         ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-23 15:42         ` Jerome Guitton
2012-05-23 16:03           ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-23 16:10             ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-23 16:22             ` Joel Brobecker

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