Help: address vs pointer

[Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>]

Hi,

I have a problem with the address vs pointer circuitry in gdb for the  
AVR.

The AVR is a pure harvard architecture and furthermore the pc is an  
index to words (2 bytes).  Instruction
pointers are also index to words.
In the ELF world, addresses are bytes indexes (and data addresses have  
a 0x80000 offset).

So far so good.

In gdb world, instruction addresses should be in bytes and thus so are  
arch_unwind_pc and arch_read_pc.
But arch_pointer_to_adress will multiply by 2 pointers to instructions  
and will add an offset for pointer
to data.

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).
If it is not a pointer to instructions, 'disass $pc $pc+4' would be  
wrong because an offset would be added
like for any non-instruction pointer value.

What did I miss ?

Tristan.