RFA: addresses and pointers may be different sizes while printing
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@cygnus.com
Tue Jul 10 13:32:00 GMT 2001
> These are probably something to do separate to these patches but they do
>> need doing. At present, there is nothing explaining (and testing) GDB's
>> behavour on a harvard architecture.
>
>
> Oh, I got confused. What I posted there was a rationale for my change
> to value_cast, which (I think) is more than adequately documented with
> the patch above. What you want is an explanation of our whole
> philosophy regarding pointers, addresses, separate address spaces, and
> so on.
>
> I'll chew on it. Perhaps now's the time to restart the discussion of
> Harvard Architecture machines, put together a coherent picture of how
> things are supposed to behave, and document it.
While you're chewing away (:-) could you file a CR anyway? That way
this thread has ``closure''.
Andrew
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