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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Richard Stuckey <richard.stuckey@arc.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb 6.8 selected_byte_order function
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080924130746.GA19429@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222253904.3506.12.camel@sad-richards.arc.com>

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:58:24AM +0100, Richard Stuckey wrote:
> Given that that the variable ‘target_byte_order_user ‘ holds the user’s
> preference as specified by the “set endian” command, it seems to me that
> the code should be
> 
>   if (target_byte_order_user != BFD_ENDIAN_UNKNOWN)
>     return target_byte_order_user;
>  else
>     return gdbarch_byte_order (current_gdbarch);
> 
> i.e. if the user has explicitly specified the byte order then we use
> that, otherwise we use the order determined from the current
> architecture.

This happens at a higher level.  When the user sets the byte order, we
go through set_endian just below.  THe call to gdbarch_update_p
changes current_gdbarch.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-24 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-24 10:59 Richard Stuckey
2008-09-24 13:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-09-24 13:37 ` Richard Stuckey
2008-09-24 13:49   ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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