Re: [RFA][2/5] New port: Cell BE SPU (valops.c fix)

[Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:38:17PM +0100, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>> The patch below 'fixes' this for SPU by at least not calling
>> VALUE_TO_REGISTER for bitfield assignments, but falling back
>> to the default code.  This happens to work for SPU; other 
>> platforms with special conversion needs might need to get a
>> chance for the back-end to get involved even then.  I guess
>> when this happens we can think of an extended interface that
>> would pass the bitsize information through to the back-end ...
>
> I've got to admit that I don't like it :-(

Yeah --- it'll mask problems if someone else has a convertible
register with bitfields.

> VALUE_TO_REGISTER has only one caller and eight definitions (plus some
> documentation).  It shouldn't be hard to update it.  What additional
> information do you need?  Would passing the two values instead of one
> regnum and one contents do it?

Or, possibly another gdbarch method, VALUE_TO_REGISTER_BITFIELD, which
can be left unset, provoking an internal error in value_assign?