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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com>,
		  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Cut memory address width
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k63pukmn.fsf@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060927185544.GA6821@nevyn.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:55:44 -0400")


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:37:16PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>> In such case `paddress' should print full 64-bit addresses.
>> Currently it is weird as it refuses to access memory while it will show you
>> that you were accessing 0xffffce70 - the already cut form - it lies.
>
> Yes, I'm inclined to agree with this.  I've encountered it a time or
> two, mostly while working on MIPS64, and it's really bewildering!
> If we have garbage in the high bits, that's a problem already.
>
> I don't know what else would break but unless someone else does, I
> think we should change paddress to print what it's got.

Definitely.  Having paddress "fix" things adds insult to injury.  :)


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-27 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-27 16:15 Jan Kratochvil
2006-09-27 18:20 ` Michael Snyder
2006-09-27 18:22   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-27 18:37     ` Jan Kratochvil
2006-09-27 18:55       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-27 20:19         ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2006-09-27 19:01 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-09-28 17:27   ` Jan Kratochvil
2006-10-05 22:26     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-27 19:23 ` Jim Blandy

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