Re: Problem with breakpoint addresses

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:54:51PM +0000, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >Some day, I think we're going to need to do as Mark and Michael
> >suggested; stop using CORE_ADDR so indiscriminately as a convenient
> >integer type.  In the mean time, perhaps everywhere that doesn't
> >define integer_to_address should get a better default, or the fallback
> >case in value_as_address should be changed, so that this is fixed
> >equally on other platforms.
> 
> Hmmm, well some of those platforms, such as sh64, like the current 
> default behaviour as it is.

They should explicitly have a sign extending method set then.  See
MIPS.  Now it depends if your register has type "int" or "uint",
which really shouldn't matter.

> Perhaps the correct fix is to define a default address width for each 
> target variant, but that seems like more work than is really necessary.
> 
> Should I post my patch or work up something else?

Dunno.  Fixing SH is better than fixing nothing.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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