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Re: [patch] Small fix for assigning values to vectors

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at codesourcery dot com>
To: Ken Werner <ken at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:39:09 -0400
Subject: Re: [patch] Small fix for assigning values to vectors
References: <201007091312.o69DC1TX013390@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <201007101503.54109.ken@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 03:03:53PM +0200, Ken Werner wrote:
> But while we are at it. Are there any objections on copying the contents to 
> the destination instead of creating a pointer?

I think we're going a bit too far now, and maybe we need to figure out
what the semantics of internalvars are supposed to be...

With this, IIUC, "set $internalvar = program_array" is going to read
the whole array.  Previously, it would decay to a pointer as in C.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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