From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Consistent format for memory addresses
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 03:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050526034628.GA26565@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uu0kqy7so.fsf@gnu.org>
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 06:39:51AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Well, it's a number, right? What else can possibly change in the
> address format that leaves the numeric value unmodified? The only
> other thing, besides leading zeros, that I can think of is sign
> extension in some weird 32/64 bit situations. But that's a theory, I
> don't even know if it's possible in practice. So I'd say leading
> zeros is all you need to worry about for now.
For the record it is possible in practice - this happens a lot on GDB
for MIPS. However GDB should generally be consistent in this case
about whether the leading bits are displayed, and in _that_ case,
inconsistency is usually a bug.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-26 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-25 3:18 Nick Roberts
2005-05-25 3:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-25 3:51 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-25 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-25 21:10 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-25 21:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-25 23:11 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-26 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-26 3:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-05-26 4:12 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-25 4:12 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-25 5:27 ` M.M. Kettenis
2005-05-25 5:48 ` Nick Roberts
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