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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
To: Nick Duffek <nsd@redhat.com>, ac131313@cygnus.com
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [multi-arch] The frame as the global parameter (long, important)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010226215318.ZM12999@ocotillo.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200102262120.f1QLKtd00557@rtl.cygnus.com>

On Feb 26,  4:20pm, Nick Duffek wrote:

> Keeping those values in global variables could make the code more
> maintainable rather than less.  We'd need to add explicit context switches
> at frame boundary crossings, but that seems lees onerous to me than adding
> extra parameters to hundreds (thousands?) of function calls.

Personally, I'd prefer to see one extra parameter added to those
functions which are already getting one (or more) parameters
implicitly via globals.

Kevin


  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-26 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-23 16:34 Andrew Cagney
2001-02-26 13:12 ` Nick Duffek
2001-02-26 13:53   ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2001-02-26 15:27     ` Nick Duffek
2001-02-26 15:55       ` Kevin Buettner
2001-02-26 14:42   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-02-26 13:44 ` Kevin Buettner
     [not found] <983058218.3463.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2001-02-26 10:17 ` Jim Ingham
2001-02-26 13:16   ` Nick Duffek
2001-02-26 13:27     ` Jim Ingham
2001-02-26 13:28     ` Per Bothner
2001-02-26 13:50   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-02-26 14:52     ` Jim Ingham
2001-02-26 16:28       ` Andrew Cagney
2001-02-26 18:14         ` Jim Ingham

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