Re: DWARF-2 and address sizes

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 05:36  PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:59:56PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>> [Kevin, I noticed you doing some work in this area re S/390, maybe 
>>> you've
>>> got a comment?  Anyone else?  I'm grasping at straws.]
>>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out how to handle addresses in the DWARF 
>>> expression
>>> evaluator.  First consider DW_OP_deref: the following data is "the 
>>> size of
>>> an address on the target machine", which I would personally take to 
>>> mean
>>> cu_header->addr_size.  Is this ever different from 
>>> TARGET_ADDRESS_BIT /
>>> TARGET_CHAR_BIT, which is what Daniel was originally using?
>>
>> I can imagine architectures wack-o enough for cu_header->addr_size !=
>> TARGET_ADDRESS_BIT / TARGET_CHAR_BIT.  Someone doing a 16 bit port 
>> using
>> 32 bit elf.
...

> I'm willing to document this as an assertion, store the dwarf2 address
> size and signedness somewhere global, and bail if I detect a violation.
> But I'll skip that for now; it can be a later cleanup.  I've already
> got too many pieces in this patch.
>

IIRC, I did it some *other* way, and Jim told me to do it with the way 
there now.
Or is that the other way around (He told me to do it some other way, 
rather than what's there now, and i never got to it).
I believe I used to use one of the length of one of builtin types, and 
he told me to use TARGET_ADDRESS_BIT / TARGET_CHAR_BIT.
The archives should say.