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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Help: address vs pointer
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091102154836.GG4573@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26EF10E2-E2F3-4822-9CD6-4B90CF7B2CE3@adacore.com>

> So what should be the type of the pc register ?  If it is a pointer to
> instructions, 'print $pc' would be wrong as it  would be multiplied by
> 4 (once by read_pc and once during evaluation).

My not-so-educated feeling on this issue is that PC should be a pointer
to instruction.  What seems strange is that the PC value gets doubled
twice.  I understand why during the read, but not why during the eval.
Perhaps there is something we can do there?

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-02 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-02  9:17 Tristan Gingold
2009-11-02 15:48 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2009-11-02 16:04   ` Tristan Gingold

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