From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][03/19] Target FP: Complete tdep move to convert_typed_floating
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d373c5f9a2573e564f3ae31548f25324@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170905182045.22009D8086F@oc3748833570.ibm.com>
On 2017-09-05 20:20, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> [RFC][03/19] Target FP: Complete tdep move to convert_typed_floating
>
> Many tdep files need to perform conversions between two floating-point
> types, usually when accessing FP registers. Most targets now use the
> convert_typed_floating helper routine to do so. However, a small
> number
> still use the old method of converting via a DOUBLEST. Since we want
> to get rid of DOUBLEST, these targets need to be moves to the new
> method as well.
>
> The main obstacle is that for convert_typed_floating we need an actual
> *type*, not just a floatformat.
>
> In arm-tdep.c, this is very straightforward, since there is already a
> type using the ARM extended floatformat.
>
> For sh-tdep.c and sh64-tdep.c, no such type already exists, so I've
> added one to the gdbarch_tdep struct as done on other targets.
So far the patches look like good cleanups on their own own,
independently of the rest of the series.
> Index: binutils-gdb/gdb/sh-tdep.c
> ===================================================================
> --- binutils-gdb.orig/gdb/sh-tdep.c
> +++ binutils-gdb/gdb/sh-tdep.c
> @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
> #include "dis-asm.h"
> #include "inferior.h"
> #include "arch-utils.h"
> -#include "floatformat.h"
> #include "regcache.h"
> #include "doublest.h"
> #include "osabi.h"
> @@ -1552,6 +1551,19 @@ sh_register_reggroup_p (struct gdbarch *
> The other pseudo registers (the FVs) also don't pose a problem
> because they are stored as 4 individual FP elements. */
>
> +static struct type *
> +sh_littlebyte_bigword_type (struct gdbarch *gdbarch)
> +{
> + struct gdbarch_tdep *tdep = gdbarch_tdep (gdbarch);
> +
> + if (!tdep->sh_littlebyte_bigword_type)
Nit, use == NULL.
> + tdep->sh_littlebyte_bigword_type
> + = arch_float_type (gdbarch, -1,
> "builtin_type_sh_littlebyte_bigword",
> + floatformats_arm_ext);
This refers to arm, is it right?
Same comments for sh64.
Thanks,
Simon
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-05 18:20 Ulrich Weigand
2017-09-20 7:35 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2017-09-20 16:33 ` Ulrich Weigand
2017-09-27 17:09 ` Ulrich Weigand
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