Re: [PATCH 2/2] Involve gdbarch in taking DWARF register pieces

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 04/18/2016 04:02 PM, Andreas Arnez wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18 2016, Pedro Alves wrote:

> OK.  Now, reading this again, it seems to me that I should better add
> the following disclaimer at the end:
> 
>   ... This method also applies when interpreting a register as a
>   LEN-sized type, except when convert_register_p indicates that a
>   special conversion is required instead.
> 
> Still OK?

Hmm, isn't "type" the other side of the same coin though?

How about this:

Determine the physical placement of a type of size LEN within register
*REGNUM, possibly overwriting *REGNUM.  (E.g., some ABIs lay vector
types in registers pairs, and thus this method writes the correct pair
element to *REGNUM).  Returns the byte offset of the data within the
(possibly adjusted) register.  This method is used when determining
the placement of a DWARF piece (DW_OP_piece), or when interpreting a
register as a LEN-sized type, except when convert_register_p indicates
that a special conversion is required instead.

>> I'd suggest even calling it "dwarf_register_piece_placement" for
>> caller clarity?
> 
> Sure, but I find a name like 'gdbarch_dwarf_register_piece_placement' a
> bit too unwieldy when trying to stick to an 80 char line size limit.
> Maybe 'gdbarch_register_piece_placement'?

Deal.  :-)

Thanks,
Pedro Alves