RE: [RFC patch]: Adjust the use of 'long' type in dwarf2.h header

Pierre Muller
2011-02-21T13:46:31Z

> Yes, I saw this too and it is a thorn here. But the issue about a
> transformation function (like dwarf_vma) is that we have memory leaks
> - as this function is to be used on some printf's more then once - as
> static buffer would be overriden. Well printfs can be splitted into
> smaller parts, but this then would make localization even harder.

In GDB code, this is solved in utils.c source by the use of the
get_cell function, which rotates over 16 char arrays of size 50 each
currently, in dwarf.c 4 arrays of 16 char (as long as longest address is
64-bit)
for this dwarf_vma function would probably be enough, no?

Pierre Muller
GDB pascal language maintainer