Re: [RFC/RFA] gdb extension for Harvard architectures

Andrew Cagney
2001-10-03T12:17:00Z

> Without change. My contention is that the user is almost never going to
>> want to do what you just described. Why make what the user is going to
>> want to do hard?
>
>
> This whole change was prompted by a user's request to be able
> to do just that. Well, actually, he wanted to be able to do
>
> set *(@code short *) myfunction = 0xabcd

I think everyone is in agreement that not being able to frob an
instruction location is a ``breakage''. Can I guess they entered:

set *(short *) myfunc = 0xabcd

I would. And as I'm doing now, I would also be asking why I have to
explicitly specify @code, when the cast operator already knows that my
pointer is designating code space.

Andrew