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
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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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