From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2157 invoked by alias); 25 May 2005 05:27:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2134 invoked by uid 22791); 25 May 2005 05:27:22 -0000 Received: from netlx014.civ.utwente.nl (HELO netlx014.civ.utwente.nl) (130.89.1.88) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 May 2005 05:27:22 +0000 Received: from weblx058.utsp.utwente.nl (weblx058.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.1.228]) by netlx014.civ.utwente.nl (8.11.7/HKD) with SMTP id j4P5Q2p26285; Wed, 25 May 2005 07:26:03 +0200 From: "M.M. Kettenis" Subject: Re: Consistent format for memory addresses MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 05:27:00 -0000 Message-Id: <7320911956265369@webhare> X-WebHare-Origin: WebHare Organizer To: Nick Roberts , gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <17043.61074.262608.156551@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Content-Description: Message body Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: m.m.kettenis@alumnus.utwente.nl X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg00312.txt.bz2 Nick Roberts wrote: > (gdb) info frame > Stack level 0, frame at 0xbffff730: > eip =3D 0x80484d9 in main (myprog.c:55); saved eip 0x4006015a > ^^^^^^^^^ > > Still seven digits. The human mind adjusts easily to such differences, but > front ends---or at least the one I'm writing for Emacs---don't. > > So that I don't have to keep making piecemeal changes, I suggest that > memory addresses in "info frame" has the same format as disassemble > and "info break". I've not looked at the internals but maybe they could > all be printed with the same procedure call. > > WDYT? I'm all for consistency. But I think you should realize that pointers can be 64-bit too, or even 48-bit, so your code beter not depend on a fixed number of digits. Cheers, Mark