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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:58:00 -0000
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 64-bit (>4GB) inferior data types rules; TYPE_LENGTH: unsigned -> ULONGEST
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:32:29 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> (5) Patched GDB expects only these inferior types may have >2GB size:
>     	TYPE_CODE_ARRAY, TYPE_CODE_STRUCT, TYPE_CODE_UNION
>     And of course where applicable:
>     	TYPE_CODE_TYPEDEF

TYPE_CODE_STRING technically can be >2GB but I do not think it makes much
sense in practice, also current GDB cannot handle it well anyway, I was not
strictly ensuring its >2GB handling is correct.


Jan