From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: lgustavo@codesourcery.com
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Assuming types for PC
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201306101431.r5AEVAfb007850@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B5E06A.8020807@codesourcery.com> (message from Luis Machado on Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:19:22 +0200)
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:19:22 +0200
> From: Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> I see gdb.base/ptype.exp assuming PC needs to be of type void (*)().
>
> # Test ptype of user register
> gdb_test "ptype \$pc" "void \\(\\*\\)\\(\\)" "ptype \$pc"
>
> Is there any reason we should assume that? Some targets use "long long"
> or "int32_t" for PC.
I consider that to be a bug. Fixing that bug turned out to be
somewhat difficult on some architectures that have a 32-bit/64-bit
identity crisis; see the x32 discussions from last year.
> If PC should not have a fixed type, i think it would be best to remove
> this check.
Please don't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-10 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-10 14:19 Luis Machado
2013-06-10 14:31 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2013-06-10 14:34 ` Luis Machado
2013-06-10 14:45 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-06-10 14:49 ` Luis Machado
2013-06-10 14:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-06-10 15:04 ` Mark Kettenis
2013-06-10 15:18 ` Luis Machado
2013-06-10 18:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-06-10 18:44 ` Mark Kettenis
2013-06-11 9:21 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-11 10:09 ` Pedro Alves
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