From: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
To: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Cc: ligang@sunnorth.com.cn, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: register type as signed or unsigned?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17708.17583.546000.498003@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061011004812.GA4987@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
Jan> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:37:57 +0200, ligang@sunnorth.com.cn
Jan> wrote:
>> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote on 2006-10-10 20:50:02:
Jan> ...
>> > No; in fact, it doesn't make much difference. You should use
>> whichever > is "more natural" for your target instruction set; it
>> will affect > "print $reg" and "info reg".
>>
>> That is to say, whether builtin_type_int32 or builtin_type_uint32
>> is correct for GDB.
Jan> If the register is used as address, use "uint32".
Only if addresses are unsigned. That's the usual case, but MIPS has
the odd convention that addresses are viewed as signed.
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-11 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-10 8:37 ligang
2006-10-10 12:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-11 0:35 ` ligang
2006-10-11 0:48 ` Jan Kratochvil
2006-10-11 1:11 ` Paul Koning [this message]
2006-10-11 2:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-11 7:00 ` Mark Kettenis
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